1 Thaler - Sigismund von Schrattenbach

Sigismund von Schrattenbach ruled Salzburg from 1753 until his death in 1771, and his tenure is now largely overshadowed by a single biographical footnote: he was the principal patron of the Mozart family. Leopold Mozart dedicated his influential violin method, the Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, to Schrattenbach in the very year this thaler was struck, and the Archbishop financed the young Wolfgang's early Italian tours a decade later.

The Salzburg mint was among the more prolific ecclesiastical operations in the Holy Roman Empire, and Schrattenbach thalers appear across multiple die varieties within his long reign. The Zöttl reference remains the authoritative tool for distinguishing them.