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2 Kreuzers - Guidobald von Thun
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1660 |
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| Weight | 1.1 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Oval shield bearing the arms of Salzburg — a divided field with a rampant lion on the dexter side and horizontal bars on the sinister — set within a rope-bordered inner circle. The denomination numeral '2' appears in the lower field below the shield. The circumferential legend gives the issuer name 'SALISBURGENSIS' flanked by ornamental stops, with the date '1660' integrated into the legend. The composition is characteristic of small silver subsidiary coinage of the mid-17th century. |
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Guidobald von Thun und Hohenstein served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1654 until his death in 1668, presiding over a see that functioned as a fully sovereign ecclesiastical principality within the Holy Roman Empire — with its own mint, its own coinage rights, and its own fiscal obligations. The small silver kreuzers of his reign were working money, struck in quantity to meet local transactional demand in a mountainous region where trade moved through passes and market towns rather than major financial centers.
Zöttl 1829 is a well-documented type within the Salzburg series. The archiepiscopal mint at this period operated under tight oversight following earlier debasement controversies in the region.