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1 Thaler - Ferdinand III of Austria-Tuscany
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1805 |
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| Weight | 28 g |
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| Reverse description | Centrally placed crowned coat of arms encircled by a decorative laurel wreath, with the date appearing at the base of the design. The surrounding legend, commencing at 12 o'clock, reads in abbreviated Latin for 'Princeps Aichstatensis, Passau et Berchtolsgaden,' referencing the territorial titles held by Ferdinand as secular administrator. The heraldic composition is rendered in the neoclassical style typical of Austrian minting of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand III had been Grand Duke of Tuscany until Napoleon's reorganization of Italy stripped him of that title in 1801. He spent years in negotiation and exile before receiving Salzburg as compensation — a hasty substitution arranged under French pressure. This thaler, struck just one year before Napoleon dissolved the Salzburg archbishopric entirely and absorbed the territory into Bavaria, is effectively a last gasp issue for Ferdinand's short-lived sovereignty there.
The 1806 absorption ended over a millennium of ecclesiastical rule in Salzburg. Ferdinand would eventually recover Tuscany in 1814.