Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, celebrated his twelfth jubilee of episcopal ordination in 1782 — the same year his most famous subject, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had already fled the archbishopric following their notorious rupture two years earlier. Colloredo was a committed Josephinist reformer, suppressing monasteries and curtailing baroque religious excess across his territory in lockstep with Emperor Joseph II's ecclesiastical reforms.
Jubilee ducats of this type were struck in limited quantities as presentation pieces rather than circulating currency. The Zöttl reference places this firmly among the scarcer commemorative issues of the Salzburg series.
Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, celebrated his twelfth jubilee of episcopal ordination in 1782 — the same year his most famous subject, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had already fled the archbishopric following their notorious rupture two years earlier. Colloredo was a committed Josephinist reformer, suppressing monasteries and curtailing baroque religious excess across his territory in lockstep with Emperor Joseph II's ecclesiastical reforms.
Jubilee ducats of this type were struck in limited quantities as presentation pieces rather than circulating currency. The Zöttl reference places this firmly among the scarcer commemorative issues of the Salzburg series.