1 Pfennig - Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau

Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1587, was deposed in 1612 after a disastrous military conflict with Bavaria over control of the salt trade routes through Hallein — a confrontation he catastrophically misjudged. These pfennigs were struck in the final years of his reign, just before Bavarian forces occupied Salzburg and imprisoned him in Hohensalzburg Fortress, where he died in 1617. The silver content, negligible by weight, reflects the billon-adjacent small denomination coinage typical of prince-archbishopric issues funding an increasingly desperate administration.