1/2 Guldiner/ 1/2 Thaler - Michael von Kuenburg

Michael von Kuenburg served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1554 until his death in 1560, presiding over a diocese caught between Lutheran pressure from the surrounding nobility and Rome's demands for Counter-Reformation compliance. His tenure was short and politically uncomfortable. The half-guldiner issues struck under his name drew on Salzburg's substantial silver resources from the Alpine mining operations that had made the archbishopric one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical territories in the Reich — wealth that underwrote both his coinage and his precarious political independence.

Zöttl catalogues five die variants across this type, nos. 470–474.