1 Thaler - Wolf Dietrich Von Raitenau

Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1587 at just 28 years old, owing his appointment largely to his Medici connections on his mother's side — a lineage he leveraged aggressively throughout his reign to position Salzburg as an ultramontane cultural capital. His thalers from this period funded an ambitious rebuilding program that would eventually transform the medieval city into something resembling an Alpine Rome, a project accelerated after he ordered the old cathedral demolished in 1598 following a fire he may have deliberately let spread.

He died a prisoner in 1617, confined by his own chapter after a disastrous war with Bavaria over the salt trade.