Salzburg 1636 1/2 thaler

Künker sale 384, lot 2831

This specimen was lot 2831 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €240 (about US$310 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. 1/2 Reichstalerklippe 1636. R Henkelspur, sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 29, München 1989, Nr. 874. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, klippe half thaler of 1636. Rare, mount mark, 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 in klippe format (shown here) in 1624-31 and 1636-39. The round version (KM 89) was struck 1621-22 and is slightly more expensive. 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 1813.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 14.04 g.

Catalog reference: KM 90, Probszt 1246; Zöttl 1532 (Type 7).

Source:

• Craig, William D., 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.
• 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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