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10 Kreuzers / Zehner - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1525 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two heraldic shields displayed side by side within a beaded inner circle: the arms of Salzburg to the left and the personal arms of Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg to the right, surmounted by a cardinal's galero with pendant tassels. The date appears in the field below the shields. A Latin legend commences at 12 o'clock and runs clockwise around the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg was not a popular man in Salzburg. A humanist diplomat and imperial chancellor who owed his archbishopric entirely to Maximilian I's patronage, he faced a full-scale peasant uprising in 1525 — part of the broader German Peasants' War — that drove him out of the city and besieged him in the Hohensalzburg fortress for months. This coin was struck in that same year of near-total administrative collapse.
That any regular silver coinage emerged from Salzburg in 1525 at all is the more remarkable fact.