Salzburg 1622 12 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2853 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €220 (about US$284 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Paris von Lodron, 1619-1653. Kipper-12 Kreuzer 1622. RR Schön-sehr schön. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1278. (archbishopric of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron, 1619-53, kipper twelve kreuzer of 1622. Very rare, fine to very fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. Altho nominally one-sixth of a thaler, this "kipper 12 kreuzer" is too light and is probably debased as well, being an inflationary issue (1620-24) of the Thirty Years War, along with 12, 48, 60 and 120 kreuzer. Once the kipper period was over, there was a concerted effort to recall and melt down the debased issues, accounting for their rarity today. 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 1814.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver or billon, this specimen 2.08 g.
Catalog reference: KM 78, Probszt 1417; Zöttl 1730.
- 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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