AUSTRIA, Salzburg (Prince-Archbishophric). Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. 1587-1612. AR Doppeltaler Klippe (42x43mm, 57.00 g, 12h). Dated 1593 (in Roman numerals). St. Rupert seated facing slightly left, wearing nimbus crown, miter, and episcopal regalia, and holding salt cellar and crozier / 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. Zöttl 938; Probszt 798; Davenport 8198. Toned, edge filed. Good VF.
From the Drewry Family Collection. Ex Galerie des Monnaies of Geneva (10 June 1978), lot 2954.
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