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15 Kreuzers - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1682 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse field is occupied by a nine-line Latin inscription naming the issuer in abbreviated form, reading MAX GAND EX COMIT DE KÜENBURG ARCHIEP ET PR SALISB S SED AP LEG SÆCULO VNDECIMO FVNDATI ARCHIEPTVS, commemorating the eleventh centenary of the founding of the Archbishopric of Salzburg. The text is set within a plain inner field enclosed by a milled border. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAX GAND EX COMIT DE KÜENBURG ARCHIEP ET PR SALISB S SED AP LEG SÆCULO VNDECIMO FVNDATI ARCHIEPTVS |
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Max Gandolf von Kuenburg ruled Salzburg from 1668 until his death in 1687, a tenure defined largely by his brutal expulsion of Protestants from the Alpine valleys — most notoriously the 1684 forced emigration of crypto-Lutherans from the Defereggen Valley. The archbishopric maintained its own mint at this period with considerable autonomy, issuing fractional silver for regional commerce largely independent of Habsburg monetary directives.
Zöttl 1991 places this among the documented kreuzers of his later reign, by which point the Salzburg mint was producing silver coinage under considerable pressure from fluctuating metal supplies tied to the ongoing costs of the Turkish Wars.