1/8 Thaler - Paris von Lodron

Paris von Lodron was elected Archbishop of Salzburg in 1619 and almost immediately faced the catastrophe of the Thirty Years' War engulfing the surrounding territories. Salzburg itself managed to stay out of direct military conflict under his long rule, a feat of careful neutrality that lasted until his death in 1653 — making his archbishopric one of the most politically stable in the German-speaking world during that century.

The fractional thaler issues of this period served genuine small-denomination commerce in a region whose silver came largely from the Gastein and Rauris mining valleys. Zöttl documents four varieties across the emission, distinguishable by subtle differences in the die work.