2 Kreuzers - Guidobald von Thun

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.