Salzburg 1698 thaler Dav-3510
This specimen was lot 5985 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabruck, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €380 (about US$529 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"DIE GEISTLICHKEIT IN DEN HABSBURGISCHEN ERBLAN, Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709. Reichstaler 1698 (Jahreszahl im Stempel aus 1697 geändert). Hübsche Patina, vorzüglich. (Germany, archbishopric of Salzburg, Johann Ernst von Thun und Hohenstein, 1687-1709, thaler of 1698, 1698/7 overdate. Handsome patina, extremley fine.)"
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 1687-1709 and is common. Confusingly, it is also listed as Dav-1234.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver, this specimen 28.91 g.
Catalog reference: KM 254, Dav-3510; Zöttl 2170.
- 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.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.
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