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1 Pfennig - Leonard of Keutschach Copper
| Issuer | Bishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1505 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄480) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1505 |
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Leonard of Keutschach served as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1495 until his death in 1519, a tenure marked by aggressive consolidation of ecclesiastical authority and costly military entanglements with the Bavarian Wittelsbachs. This pfennig dates to the period when he was actively rebuilding Salzburg's fortifications and draining the archbishopric's treasury in the process. Small copper pfennigs of this type circulated almost entirely at the local level — the Salzach valley trade economy ran on exactly this denomination.
Zöttl 120 is among the more frequently encountered of Leonard's copper issues, though survivors in unmolested condition are scarcer than the type number suggests.