Ferdinand III, formerly Grand Duke of Tuscany, received Salzburg as compensation under the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss — the sweeping territorial reorganization that dissolved over a hundred ecclesiastical principalities across the Holy Roman Empire. Salzburg itself had only just been secularized from the Prince-Archbishopric. These copper pfennigs were struck during Ferdinand's brief tenure before Napoleon's reorganization of 1805 handed the territory to Austria, ending any independent Salzburg coinage permanently.
Ferdinand III, formerly Grand Duke of Tuscany, received Salzburg as compensation under the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss — the sweeping territorial reorganization that dissolved over a hundred ecclesiastical principalities across the Holy Roman Empire. Salzburg itself had only just been secularized from the Prince-Archbishopric. These copper pfennigs were struck during Ferdinand's brief tenure before Napoleon's reorganization of 1805 handed the territory to Austria, ending any independent Salzburg coinage permanently.