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[[Image:Salm-Dhaun K335-4355.jpg|550px|thumb|Künker sale 335, lot 4355]]
[[Image:Dhaun 1789.jpg|550px|500px|thumb|Dhaun in 1789]]
[[Image:Salm 1786.jpg|550px|500px|thumb|Salm in 1789]]

This specimen was lot 4355 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €500 (about US$654 including buyer's fees). The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, <blockquote>"''SALM, SALM-DHAUN, GRAFSCHAFT. Wolfgang Friedrich und Johann Konrad, 1617-1638. Dicken 1619, Wörrstadt, mit Titel von Matthias. Kl. durchgehender Schrötlingsfehler, vorzüglich.'' ([[Germany]], county of Salm-Dhaun, Wolfgang Frederick and John Conrad, 1617-38, dicken of 1619, Worrstadt mint, in the name of Matthias. A little weakly struck with planchet flaws, extremely fine.)"</blockquote> The county of Salm shown on the maps is in the Vosges, on the border between Alsace and Lorraine. It remained an independent enclave until the French Revolution, when the Convention annexed all the enclaves as well as Belgium and the Rhineland. Salm-Dhaun was to the northeast, in the archbishopric of [[German States, Trier|Trier]]. This type was struck 1618-19 and was equal to a quarter thaler.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' silver, this specimen 6,96 g.

''Catalog reference:'' KM 38, Joseph 168 var. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Craig, William D., ''[[Germany|Germanic]] Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II,'' Mountain View, CA: 1954.
* Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
* <sup>[1]</sup>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.

''Link to:''
* [[Trier 1624 thaler Dav-5887|1624 thaler]]
* [[Salm-Kyrburg 1780-BFN thaler Dav-2644]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1619]]

[[Category: Minor coinage of the German states]][[Category:Selections from Kunker sale 335, 336]]