Salzburg 1632 thaler Dav-3504

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 ANA sale, lot 22176

This silver thaler was minted in Salzburg in 1632. This specimen was lot 22176 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $576. The catalog description^[1] noted, "AUSTRIA. Salzburg. Taler, 1632. Paris von Lodron (1619-53). NGC MS-62. Flashy in the fields with pale peach tone over both sides." 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 1623-53 and is one of the commonest thalers of the seventeenth century.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: Davenport-3504, KM 87.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
• Helmut Zöttl, Salzburg Münzen und Medaillen, 1500-1810, 2 vols. Salzburg: Verlag Fruhwald, 2008.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

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