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1 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the quartered arms of the Archbishopric of Salzburg — a divided shield bearing the Salzburg lion and episcopal insignia — set within an ornamental wreath of laurel or olive branches. The mintmark letters 'S' and 'B' appear in the lower field, flanking the base of the shield, denoting the Salzburg Mint. The overall design is rendered in a modest, utilitarian style consistent with small copper coinage of the late Holy Roman Empire period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo is remembered less for his coinage than for his prolonged, acrimonious employment dispute with a certain court musician he dismissed in 1781 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who left Salzburg in a fury and never returned. Colloredo ruled the archbishopric from 1772 until Napoleon's forces secularized it in 1803, making this 1792 pfennig a product of one of the last decades of ecclesiastical coinage from Salzburg before the entire structure of prince-archbishopric governance collapsed.
Zöttl 3390 places this among the minor copper issues of his final decade in power.