Salzburg 1754 17 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 3169 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €80 (about US$103 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 17 Kreuzer 1754. Achtfeldiges Stifts- und Familienwappen mit Mittelschild, darüber Kardinalshut mit herabhängenden Quasten, dahinter Krummstab und Schwert gekreuzt//St. Rupertus mit Mitra, Salzgefäß und Krummstab sitzt v. v. Feine Patina, sehr schön. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, seventeen kreuzer of 1754. Obverse: eightfold state and family arms with escutcheon under a cardinal's hat with tassels, crozier and sword behind; reverse: St. Rupert seated with miter, saltcellar and crozier. Fine patina, very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1754 only. It is the first issue of this denomination, introduced on the proclamation of the convention standard, which raised the thaler from ninety kreuzer to 120 kreuzer. The convention standard would be used until the early nineteenth century. In the seventeenth century, Salzburg was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. The archbishopric was secularized in 1803 and passed to Austria in 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 5.98 g.
Catalog reference: KM 377; Probszt 2332; Zöttl 3054.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 384: Münzen, Medaillen und Marken von Salzburg - Die Sammlung Professor Dr. Franz Schedel, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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