1 Ducat - Sede Vacante

Sede Vacante issues from Salzburg were struck by the Cathedral Chapter during the interregnum between archbishops, asserting the Chapter's right to govern the see — and mint coin — in the absence of a ruling prelate. The 1772 vacancy followed the death of Sigismund von Schrattenbach in December 1771, the same archbishop who had famously dismissed the young Wolfgang Mozart from court service just weeks earlier. The Chapter's authority to strike independent coinage during vacancies was a privilege jealously defended against Habsburg encroachment throughout the eighteenth century.

Zöttl 3114 is among the scarcer Salzburg Sede Vacante ducats of the century.