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1 Kreuzer - Sigismund von Schrattenbach
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1759-1764 |
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| Value | 1 Kreuzer (1⁄60) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features an ornate baroque heraldic shield bearing the arms of Salzburg, centrally positioned in the field, with the date divided and placed to either side of the shield's upper portion. Below the shield, the denomination value is displayed within a decorative frame. A circular Latin legend, commencing at approximately 2 o'clock, abbreviates the titulature for Legate of the Holy Apostolic See and Primate of Germany. The overall composition is characteristic of the small billon Kreuzer coinage of the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg. |
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| Mintage | 1759 - - 1760 - - 1761 - - 1764 - - |
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Sigismund von Schrattenbach governed Salzburg from 1753 until his death in 1771, and these small billon kreuzers were struck across a six-year window that coincided almost exactly with the Seven Years' War — a conflict that disrupted trade routes, strained regional mints, and pressured ecclesiastical princes throughout the Holy Roman Empire to maintain petty coinage supplies for local markets. Salzburg's mint was unusually active for an ecclesiastical territory of its size.
Schrattenbach is better remembered today as the Archbishop who employed the Mozart family, granting Leopold Mozart his court position. The coins of his reign circulated in the same streets young Wolfgang walked as a child.