Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein served as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1747 until his death in 1753, a tenure short enough that his coinage spans only a handful of years. The Salzburg archbishopric maintained the unusual privilege of striking its own silver pfennig denominations well into the eighteenth century, long after most ecclesiastical mints in the Holy Roman Empire had surrendered or lost such rights — a persistence rooted in Salzburg's exceptional jurisdictional independence backed by its salt revenues.
The Zöttl reference distinguishes four die varieties across the 1748–1752 production run.
Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein served as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1747 until his death in 1753, a tenure short enough that his coinage spans only a handful of years. The Salzburg archbishopric maintained the unusual privilege of striking its own silver pfennig denominations well into the eighteenth century, long after most ecclesiastical mints in the Holy Roman Empire had surrendered or lost such rights — a persistence rooted in Salzburg's exceptional jurisdictional independence backed by its salt revenues.
The Zöttl reference distinguishes four die varieties across the 1748–1752 production run.