Salzburg 1766 5 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3172 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €170 (about US$220 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Sigismund III. von Schrattenbach, 1753-1771. 5 Kreuzer 1766, 1771. 1,94 g und 1,88 g. Probszt 2347, 2349; Zöttl 3074, 3076. 2 Stück., Vorzüglich. 1766: Exemplar der Auktion H. D. Rauch 25, Wien 1979, Nr. 2068. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Sigismund III of Schrattenbach, 1753-71, five kreuzers of 1766 and 1771. Two pieces, 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 1766 and 1770-71. It is the second issue of this denomination, introduced on the proclamation of the convention standard, which raised the thaler from ninety kreuzer to 120 kreuzer. This coin would have been worth 1/24 thaler (note the weight marked on the coin, "CCXL EINE FEINE MARK"). 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 or billon, this specimen 1.94 g.
Catalog reference: KM 413; Probszt 2347; Zöttl 3074.
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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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