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10 Kreuzers Wine, Landmark Money, Lend

Issuer Salzburg, Bishopric of
Year 1688
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Composition Copper
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 1688
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This issue belongs to a category of ecclesiastical coinage produced by the Archbishopric of Salzburg to facilitate specific local economic transactions — in this case, tied to the wine trade and lending functions that the church administered in the region. Salzburg's prince-archbishops held both spiritual and secular authority, giving them the right to strike coins for particular commercial purposes well into the late seventeenth century.

The Zöttl and Probszt references place this firmly within the specialized corpus of Austrian ecclesiastical copper issues, a category frequently underrepresented in general collections.

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