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2 Ducats - Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi Rudolf II
| Issuer | Salzburg, Archbishopric of |
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| Year | 1577-1586 |
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| Value | 2 Ducats (2 Dukaten) (4.5) |
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| Reverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle displayed, each head crowned, the two crowns surmounted by a single imperial crown above the junction of the necks. The eagle's talons grasp a sword and orb, with a double-barred cross superimposed on the breast. A rope-twist border frames the encircling Latin legend RVDOL · II · IMPE · AVGVS · P · F · DECRET ·, invoking Emperor Rudolf II as Augustus, rendered in fine hammered relief characteristic of late sixteenth-century Salzburg coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1577 - - 1578 - - 1579 - - 1580 - - 1581 - - 1582 - 158Z - 1583 - - 1584 - - 1585 - - 1586 - - |
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Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1560 to 1586, a tenure that coincided almost exactly with the Counter-Reformation's most aggressive phase in the region. Rudolf II, to whose name this issue is struck, was himself a deeply ambivalent figure in that struggle — nominally the defender of Catholic interests in the Empire while personally tolerating Protestant nobles and intellectuals at his Prague court. Salzburg's archbishops had less patience for ambiguity; Khuen von Belasi pursued confessional consolidation throughout his diocese with considerably more conviction than his emperor.
The Fugger banking network remained deeply embedded in Salzburg's gold supply during this period, with Alpine mining revenues channeling directly into archiepiscopal minting operations.