Catalog
1 Kreutzer - Ferdinand III of Austria - Tuscany
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1804-1806 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#491, Zöttl#3427 |
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| Obverse lettering | FERD. KURFURST VON SALZBURG M (Translation: Ferdinand Prince Elector of Salzburg) |
| Reverse description | Within a raised diamond-shaped (lozenge) cartouche set against a plain field, the denomination EIN KREUTZER is inscribed across two lines, with the date appearing beneath in the lower quadrant of the lozenge. A double-lined border defines the diamond frame, and the entire design is enclosed within a beaded outer border. The stark, typographic composition is characteristic of utilitarian copper coinage of the Napoleonic era. |
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The Archbishopric of Salzburg's authority to strike coinage was already on borrowed time by 1804. Napoleon's reorganization of the German territories had effectively sealed the fate of the ecclesiastical princes, and Salzburg itself was secularized and transferred to Austrian control in 1803 — meaning these kreutzers were struck under a political arrangement already in the process of being dismantled. Ferdinand III, who had been dispossessed of Tuscany by the French, received Salzburg as compensation under the Lunéville settlement.
The window of issue, 1804 to 1806, closes with the Confederation of the Rhine and the formal dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.