2 Kreuzers - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg

Max Gandolf von Kuenburg served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 until his death in 1687, presiding over a court that rivaled many secular princes in its ambitions — he was among the most aggressive enforcers of Counter-Reformation policy in the Alpine territories, expelling Protestants from the mining communities of the Defereggen valley in 1684. The small silver issues of his reign reflect the archbishopric's functioning as a genuine territorial state, with its own mint at Salzburg city producing coinage across a wide range of denominations.