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1/4 Thaler - Leonhard von Keutschach
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1513 |
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| Shape | Klippe |
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| Reverse description | Enthroned frontal figure of Saint Rupert, patron saint of Salzburg, vested in episcopal robes and wearing a mitre with a nimbus behind his head; he holds a crozier in his left hand and raises his right hand in blessing. The figure is set within a beaded inner circle, with a Latin legend identifying the saint running between the inner beaded border and the outer rope-pattern border of the square klippe flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | SAVCTVS RVDBERTVS EPS SALZBVRGE (Translation: Saint Rupert, bishop of Salzburg) |
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Leonhard von Keutschach ruled Salzburg from 1495 until his death in 1519, and his tenure was marked by aggressive assertion of archiepiscopal authority — he expelled the burghers of Salzburg from the city in 1511 after a prolonged dispute over civic privileges, an act that left the city half-empty for years. The quarter thaler denomination itself was still finding its footing in 1513, introduced in the wake of the larger thaler coinage that had only emerged from Tyrolean and Salzburg mints in the preceding decades.
Zöttl 115 is among the earlier documented fractional thaler issues from the Salzburg mint under Keutschach.