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1 Pfennig - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1519-1538 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface hammered billon pfennig struck in the name of Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg. The central device displays two heraldic shields arranged side by side within a lozenge (rhombus) border: the dexter shield bears the combined arms of Salzburg and Austria, while the sinister shield carries the personal arms of the Archbishop. The date, either in full or abbreviated to the final two digits, appears above the shields within the lozenge, and the initial letter M, denoting Matthäus, is placed below. The overall design is typical of the small hammered pfennig coinage of the Salzburg mint in the early sixteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1519 - - 1520 - - 1521 - - 1522 - - 1523 - - 1524 - - 1525 - - 1526 - - 1527 - - 1528 - - 1529 - - 1530 - - 1531 - - 1532 - - 1533 - - 1534 - - 1535 - - 1535 - (fr) Type 2 Zöttl#330 date (15)35 - 1536 - (fr) Type 2 Zöttl#331 date (15)36 - 1537 - (fr) Type 2 Zöttl#332 date (15)37 - 1538 - (fr) Type 2 Zöttl#333 date (15)38 - |
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Lang von Wellenburg was one of the most politically entangled churchmen of the Reformation period — a close advisor to Emperor Maximilian I and later a fierce opponent of the peasant uprisings of 1525, during which Salzburg became a flashpoint for revolt. His lengthy archiepiscopate saw the city under near-constant pressure from Protestant ideas filtering north from Zürich and Wittenberg, yet his mint continued producing small billon issues throughout. The Zöttl range spanning numbers 313–335 suggests meaningful die variation across the nearly two decades of his rule.