1 Kreutzer - Hieronymus von Colloredo

Hieronymus von Colloredo is remembered in musical history primarily as Mozart's employer — and the archbishop who famously dismissed him with a kick to the backside, according to Mozart's own letter of June 1781. This kreutzer dates to nine years after that rupture, issued while Colloredo's authority in Salzburg was already being eroded by Joseph II's centralizing reforms and the broader dissolution of ecclesiastical privilege across the Habsburg territories.

The KM#478.1 designation separates this from related varieties by die detail. Zöttl's cataloguing of Salzburg copper remains the specialist reference for distinguishing the several kreutzer types Colloredo issued across his long episcopate, which ended only when Napoleon's reorganization of German territories stripped him of temporal rule in 1803.