Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1185. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Salzburg. Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. Archbishop, 1587-1612. AR Turmtaler Klippe (28.58 g, 12h). Dated MDXCIII (1593). St. Rudbert, wearing episcopal regalia, seated facing slightly left, holding salt cellar and crozier; episcopal coat-of-arms before; all within pelleted and grained left border / Three-tiered tower set in waves and surmounted by cross, buffeted by winds at sides and hail and rain from storm clouds above; all within pelleted and grained left border. Cf. Bernhart & Roll 1565; Probszt 805; Davenport 8200. EF, toned.

Ex Triton VI (13 January 2003), lot 1259.

The date (in Roman numerals) has been re-cut in the die, so there is a fourth I under the second rosette stop in the reverse legend.