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1/2 Kreuzer - Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1748-1752 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Two oval heraldic shields displayed side by side, bearing the arms of Salzburg and those of Archbishop Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein respectively. Above the shields, the denomination expressed as a fraction is contained within a circular frame, with the date split to either side of the value indicator. The initial letter A, standing for Andreas, appears in the lower field beneath the shields. The design is rendered in a restrained Baroque style typical of mid-eighteenth-century Austrian ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is uniface and entirely blank, with no design, legend, or decorative elements present. The plain flan surface shows only the natural texture of the struck silver planchet. |
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Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein served as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1747 until his death in 1753, making this a short-lived issue confined entirely to his tenure. The Archbishopric operated its own mint at Salzburg with full imperial privilege, a right jealously maintained by successive prince-archbishops as a mark of their sovereign ecclesiastical status within the Holy Roman Empire. Zöttl's three-number range for this type suggests at least minor die variations across the emission years — collectors working the series treat them as distinct pickups rather than interchangeable examples.