Salzburg 1700 1/2 thaler

from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70119

This specimen was lot 70119 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $480. The catalog description^[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. 1/2 Taler, 1700/699. Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein. PCGS MS-64 Gold Shield. A beautifully struck up (rolled) coin, showing a strong curvature in the planchet, and with dark gray toned, original surfaces." The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. In the seventeenth century it was blessed with a number of productive silver mines and the prince-archbishop was a prolific issuer of coins, particularly thalers. This type was struck 1687, 1694-1700, 1702-1708 and is fairly common. The SCWC does not mention the overdate.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-253.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• 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]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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