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10 Kreuzers Wine, Landmark Money, Lend
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1688 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the monogram FIL composed of interlaced capital letters, with the Roman numeral X (denoting the 10 Kreuzer denomination) prominently positioned below. The date 1688 is arranged to either side of the monogram, with '16' to the left and '88' to the right. In the lower portion of the field, a bunch of grapes with vine leaf is depicted in relief, referencing the wine-trade character of this local currency. Two small rosette or flower ornaments appear in the upper field flanking the monogram. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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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.