Salzburg 1573-SR 10 kreuzer
This specimen was lot 2658 in Künker sale 384 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €1,400 (about US$1,809 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi, 1560-1586. 10 Kreuzer 1573, mit Titel Maximilians II. RR Hübsche Patina, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Auktion Bankhaus Partin 33, München 1991, Nr. 1175. (archbishopric of Salzburg, John Jacob Khuen of Belasi, 1560-86, ten kreuzer of 1573, struck in the name of Maximilian II. Very rare, handsome patina, very fine to extremely fine.)"
The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state between Bavaria and Austria and usually ruled by a Hapsburg client. This denomination was one-sixth of a guldenthaler or 5/36 of a thaler. Its value continued to slip as the gulden shrank against the thaler. 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, this specimen 4,06 g.
Catalog reference: Probszt 611; Zöttl 698 (Type 2).
- 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, 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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