Salzburg 1575 guldenthaler

Künker sale 335, lot 4826

This specimen was lot 4826 in Künker sale 335 (Osnabruck, Germany, March 2020), where it sold for €1,700 (about US$2,225 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"RÖMISCH-DEUTSCHES REICH. DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLANDEN, Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586. Guldentaler (60 Kreuzer) 1575, mit Titel Maximilians II. Min. Schrötlingsfehler am Rand, vorzüglich-Stempelglanz. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, John Jacob of Belasi, 1560-86, gulden thaler of 1575, in the name of Maximilain II. Minor rim defects, extremely fine to uncirculated.)"

In the mid-sixteenth century, the thaler was 72 kreuzer and the gulden was 60 kreuzer or five-sixths of a thaler. In the seventeenth century, the thaler was raised to ninety kreuzer (without increasing the weight) but the gulden remained sixty kreuzer or two-thirds of a thaler.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver, this specimen 24,49 g.

Catalog reference: Dav. 123; Zöttl 636.

Source:

• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
• ^[1]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.

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