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1/2 Guldiner - Matthaüs Lang von Wellenburg
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1522 |
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| Value | 1/2 Guldiner |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered heraldic shield displaying the combined arms of the Archbishopric of Salzburg and the personal arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, flanked on both sides by the archiepiscopal attributes — crossed staff and sword — adorned with tasselled cords. A cardinal's hat surmounts the shield, and the circular Latin legend surrounds the entire composition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg was not a man who came to the archbishopric through piety. A career diplomat and humanist in the service of Maximilian I, he accumulated ecclesiastical offices across the Empire before being appointed Archbishop of Salzburg in 1519 — and promptly spent much of his early tenure suppressing a violent peasant uprising that nearly drove him from the city in 1523. This half guldiner was struck just a year before that revolt.
The guldiner series from Salzburg represents some of the earliest large silver coinage in the German-speaking lands, building on the precedent set by Hall in Tyrol decades earlier. Zöttl 212 is among the scarcer die combinations in Lang's short minting sequence.