1/2 Thaler - Sigismund von Schrattenbach type 2

Sigismund von Schrattenbach ruled the Archbishopric of Salzburg from 1753 until his death in December 1771, and it was under his patronage that the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart received his first significant court appointments. The archbishopric maintained its own mint at Salzburg with considerable autonomy over coinage even as Habsburg monetary reforms increasingly pressed the ecclesiastical states toward standardization — the Conventionsthaler standard of 1753 being the most consequential, dividing the thaler into a fixed relationship with the Gulden that forced mints like Salzburg to retool their fractional output.

The "type 2" distinction in Zöttl's classification reflects die changes made during the production run, with documented differences across the 3020–3022 sequence.