Salzburg 1757 20 kreuzer

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Künker sale 384, part of lot 3167

This specimen was part of lot 3167 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €220 (about US$284 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 20 Kreuzer 1757, 1759, 1760, 1761. Probszt 2318, 2320, 2321, 2322; Zöttl Type 2 = 3038, 3040, 3041, 3042. 4 Stück., Fast sehr schön und sehr schön. 1761: Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1498. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, twenty kreuzers of 1757-61. Four pieces, about very fine and 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 1757-64 and is fairly common. 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, making this coin one-sixth of a thaler. 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: 6.68 g, 0.583 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM 386; Probszt 2318; Zöttl 3038 (Type 2).

Source:

  • 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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