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1 Ducat - Sigismund von Schrattenbach type 4
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1762-1763 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate baroque heraldic composition featuring the impaled arms of the Archbishopric of Salzburg and the personal arms of Schrattenbach, displayed on two oval shields set side by side and supported by scrollwork cartouche at the base. The shields are flanked by pontifical insignia including the processional cross and sword. Above the arms rises a triple-tiered pontifical hat (galero) surmounted by a patriarchal cross, draped with cords and tassels falling on either side. The circular Latin legend PRINCEPS ARCHIEP SALISBURG runs along the periphery within the toothed milled border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sigismund von Schrattenbach governed Salzburg from 1753 until his death in 1771, and these ducats fall squarely within the period when his court was sustaining the young Mozart family — Leopold Mozart served as court composer under his patronage. The archbishopric maintained its own gold coinage as a matter of ecclesiastical privilege, one it exercised with notable consistency across Schrattenbach's tenure.
The two Zöttl numbers indicate distinct die pairings across the 1762–1763 production window, a granularity typical of Salzburg ducat cataloguing where annual die changes were routine and well-documented.