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1/2 Thaler Madonna - Paris von Lodron
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1626-1627 |
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| Weight | 13.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Saint Rupert, patron saint of Salzburg, stands in full figure, holding a salt cellar in his left hand and a crozier in his right hand, set above the arms of the city and archbishopric of Salzburg. The fractional denomination indicator appears at the center of the field. A circular legend reading 'Sanctus Rupertus Episcopus Salisburgensis' runs around the periphery, beginning at approximately 12 o'clock, with a mitre device interrupting and dividing the legend at the top. The date of issue is incorporated into the reverse legend. The overall design is characteristic of early seventeenth-century Salzburg ecclesiastical square klippe coinage. |
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Paris von Lodron, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1619 to 1653, managed the remarkable feat of keeping the Archbishopric neutral throughout the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that was actively dismembering the political and economic fabric of the surrounding Holy Roman Empire. This issue dates to the years immediately following the worst phases of the war's early Bavarian and Austrian campaigns, when Salzburg's mint was functioning with relative stability while neighboring mints were disrupted or debased.
The Zöttl reference distinguishes two die variants across the 1529–1530 sequence, though the physical differences are subtle enough that misattribution between the two is routine.