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ZoharZohar Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Habsburg Talers

TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like Austria too... I have not added anything lately. Nice example imaged in you post.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,454 ✭✭✭
    paging lord m!!!! a KLIPPE!!!!!!!!!!!!! nice Z! you must have a FANTASTIC collection !
  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    That is a very cool reverse design. I've always liked klippes image

    BTW, is the guy on obv actually a saint? I always thought it was the archbishop depicted image
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The patron saints of the city are Saint Rupert and Saint Vergilius and are frequently depicted together on the larger silver coins. St. Vergilius oversaw construction of the first cathedral in Salzburg and stands behind it. St. Rupert by tradition initiated the salt mining industry in the town and is depicted holding a small container of the valuable mineral.


    Habsburg Talers

    TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    Well I guess that one always holding the cathedral makes a lot more sense now! Thanks for the info image

    BTW, and completely OT - There's a very good book on Protestant refugees from Salzburg who settled in America - The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah by George Fenwick Jones. Provides an excellent overview of social/religious history in Salzburg during the time your klippe circulated, leading to the later expulsion and eventual settlement in Georgia (where most of the book is focused).
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Will look it up! Thank you.
    Habsburg Talers

    TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice piece Zohar!
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just received the Salzburg 1644 1/9th Taler Klippe, PCGS AU-50

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    Habsburg Talers

    TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,758 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>paging Lord M!!!! >>

    You rang?

    Hey, nice one! I love klippes, and other non-round coins. Love Salzburg stuff, too. I've had a number of St. Rupert pieces, but never a klippe.

    Here is my one and only, a Nurnberg silver ducat klippe, from my Holey Coin Vest. I got this in a fortuitous forum trade a while back, and the little kid with the stick horse on it really made this one all the more appealing to me.

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    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
    EXCELLENT!
    Love the design.
    Habsburg Talers

    TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
  • Silvereagle82Silvereagle82 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭
    Great coin design you have there ... Lord
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