Salzburg 1756 20 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 4836 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabrück, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €360 (about US$471 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 20 Kreuzer 1756. Vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Holy Roman Empire, archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, twenty kreuzer of 1756, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"
This type was struck 1754-56. Earlier in the century, the twenty kreuzer was one-third gulden or one quarter thaler, but by this issue had slipped to one-sixth thaler.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6.68 g, 0.583 fine silver, this specimen 6.67 g.
Catalog reference: KM 378, Probszt 2317; Zöttl 3035.
- 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 Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Catalog 335: Bracteates from Upper Swabia and the area of the Lake Constance | Coins and Medals from Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. the Dr. Karl Walter Bach Collection of coins of the Austrian nobility, Special collections of Bavaria, Lubeck, Wurttemberg as well as siege coins from the Eberhard Link Collection. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2020.
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