Lang von Wellenburg was one of the most politically compromised figures ever to hold the Salzburg archbishopric — a cardinal who owed his appointment almost entirely to Maximilian I and spent much of his tenure suppressing the peasant uprisings that culminated in the catastrophic revolt of 1525. His coinage was produced against that backdrop of near-constant internal crisis. The billon heller issues across this range show variation across the Zöttl sequence that likely reflects multiple die-cutting campaigns rather than any single coherent production run.
Lang von Wellenburg was one of the most politically compromised figures ever to hold the Salzburg archbishopric — a cardinal who owed his appointment almost entirely to Maximilian I and spent much of his tenure suppressing the peasant uprisings that culminated in the catastrophic revolt of 1525. His coinage was produced against that backdrop of near-constant internal crisis. The billon heller issues across this range show variation across the Zöttl sequence that likely reflects multiple die-cutting campaigns rather than any single coherent production run.