Salzburg 1761 10 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3170 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €140 (about US$181 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 10 Kreuzer 1754, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1761. 1x mit Muschel auf der Rückseite, 2x mit Girlande und 2x leere Kartusche. Probszt 2333, 2335, 2336, 2337, 2338 var.; Zöttl Type 1 = 3055, 3061, 3062, 3058, 3064 var. 5 Stück., Fast sehr schön-vorzüglich. 1761: Exemplar der Auktion H. D. Rauch 25, Wien 1979, Nr. 2066. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, ten kreuzers of 1754-61, one with shell on the reverse, two with garland and two with cartouche. Five pieces, about very fine to extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This type was struck 1754-61. A 1761/0 overdate is reported. 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. This coin was worth one twelfth 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: silver, this specimen 5.98 g.
Catalog reference: KM 376; Probszt 2338; Zöttl 3064.
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- 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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