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1/2 Thaler - Hieronymus von Colloredo type 2
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1773-1782 |
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| Weight | 14.03 g |
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| Reverse lettering | 1773 |
| Edge | Lettered |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo governed Salzburg as both secular prince and archbishop from 1772, and his tenure was defined by Josephinist reform — aggressive rationalization of church ceremony, suppression of pilgrimages, and cuts to feast days that made him genuinely unpopular with his subjects. The coinage reflects his reign's administrative character rather than its devotional one.
His most famous antagonist was on his own payroll. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart served as court organist under Colloredo and loathed the arrangement; the archbishop dismissed him definitively in 1781, reportedly with a literal kick. The later dates in this type's range coincide exactly with that rupture.