Salzburg 1784 kreuzer
This specimen was part of lot 3240 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), which sold for €750 (about US$969 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Hieronymus von Colloredo, 1772-1803. 10 Kreuzer Ku.-Kreuzer 1782, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1790 (2x), 1793, 1794, 1795, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 (2x). Probszt 2547-2561 a; Zöttl 3342-3357 (Type 1 - Type 8). 16 Stück., Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Hieronymus von Colloredo, 1772-1803, copper kreuzers of 1782-1802. Sixteen pieces, 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 1782-84. It superseded the last billon kreuzer struck in 1764. 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: copper.
Catalog reference: KM 451, Probszt 2549, Zöttl 3344.
- 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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