Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 928. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Salzburg. Max Gandolph von Küenburg. Archbishop, 1668-1687. AR Half Taler (14.52 g, 12h). On the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery at Salzburg. Dated 1682. + Á MAX : GAND : EX COMIT : DE KVENBVRG, ARCHIE : & PR : SAL : SED : AP : LE : GER : PRIM :, archepiscopal coat-of-arms; above, radiate pyramid inscribed DEO, bordered by FVNDATORI, AVCTORI, and CONSERVATORI, and set on PRO GRATIA GRATIÆ; 16 82 across field; the whole framed by FVNDATI ARCHIEPTVS SAL ISB : VNDECIMO SÆCVLO • / SS : MARTIN’ EP : VINCEN-/TI’ M : HERMES M : CHRY-/SANTH’ ET DARIA/MM : TRANS-/LATI in five lines in exergue, nimbate St. Martin of Tours in episcopal regalia with goose at feet standing left, raising right hand in benediction and holding crozier in left, and the martyrs Vincentius, in deaconal vestments, Hermes, in military outfit and holding sword set on ground in left hand, Chrysanthus, in military outfit and holding rock in left hand, and Daria, holding rock in right hand, each holding palm, standing below clouds with rays of the sun breaking through. Probszt 1663. Superb EF, light toning.