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1/4 Thaler - Leonhard von Keutschach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1513 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle on the square klippe flan, Saint Rupert (Sanctus Rudbertus), patron saint of Salzburg, is depicted enthroned in full pontifical vestments, wearing a mitre and nimbus, his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding a crozier. The figure is rendered in the Gothic manner characteristic of early sixteenth-century Austrian coinage. The circular Latin legend surrounding the inner beaded border identifies the saint as Bishop of Salzburg. |
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| Mint | Salzburg Mint |
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Leonhard von Keutschach ruled Salzburg from 1495 until his death in 1519, one of the most politically assertive prince-archbishops the see produced. He consolidated ecclesiastical and secular authority aggressively, fortified the Hohensalzburg, and navigated the turbulent Habsburg succession politics of Maximilian I's reign with considerable skill. The quarter thaler denomination was still finding its place in the developing thaler coinage system during these years — the full thaler itself having only emerged in the Tyrol around 1484.
Zöttl 1064 is among the earlier documented fractional thaler issues from Salzburg.