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1/2 Guldiner - Ernest of Bavaria
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1540-1554 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | The archiepiscopal arms of Ernest of Bavaria displayed centrally within a beaded inner circle, with the date appearing above the shield. The outer legend commences at 12 o'clock, introduced by a cross, and runs clockwise in Latin capitals. The heraldic composition is rendered in the bold, angular style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century South German hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | S RVDBERTVS EPS SALZBVRGEN (Translation: Saint Rupert, bishop of Salzburg.) |
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Ernest of Bavaria held the Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1540 until his death in 1554, appointed primarily through dynastic maneuvering by the Wittelsbach family rather than ecclesiastical merit — he was, by most accounts, an indifferent administrator who never received full ordination as a bishop. Salzburg's silver coinage of this period draws directly from the region's own mining output in the Gastein and Rauris valleys, which made the Archbishopric one of the few ecclesiastical states capable of sustaining a substantial minting program entirely on local metal supply.
The Zöttl references 400–405 indicate at least six die varieties across the emission period.