1 Ducat - Leonard of Keutschach

Leonard of Keutschach was one of the most politically aggressive archbishops Salzburg ever produced — he expelled the ministerial nobility from the province in 1511 and ruled the territory with an authority that blurred ecclesiastical and secular power almost completely. His ducats, struck from the rich gold of the Tauern mining operations under archiepiscopal control, reflect that wealth directly. Salzburg's mining revenues at the turn of the sixteenth century were substantial enough to make the archbishopric a significant independent economic force within the Holy Roman Empire.