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1/2 Thaler - Sigismund von Schrattenbach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1770-1771 |
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| Weight | 13.8 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1771 |
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Sigismund von Schrattenbach ruled Salzburg from 1753 until his death in December 1771, and his final years of coinage overlap with one of the archbishopric's most consequential cultural moments: it was Schrattenbach who served as the principal patron of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, commissioning works and tolerating Leopold Mozart's repeated absences to tour his prodigy son across Europe. The archbishop died before fully souring on the arrangement — that would fall to his successor, Colloredo, who famously dismissed Mozart from service in 1781.
The two Zöttl references reflect a die change between 1770 and 1771, standard for the Salzburg mint's annual updating of coinage within a reign.