Fleischkreuzer — "meat kreuzers" — were emergency municipal tokens issued to manage butchers' market transactions during periods when small silver coinage had effectively vanished from local circulation. Salzburg's mid-17th-century copper issues of this type reflect a broader collapse in small denomination availability across the Holy Roman Empire during and immediately after the Thirty Years' War, when hoarding and reminting drained markets of workable coin.
The Böckstein designation links this piece to a specific issuing locality within the archbishopric rather than the city mint proper.
Fleischkreuzer — "meat kreuzers" — were emergency municipal tokens issued to manage butchers' market transactions during periods when small silver coinage had effectively vanished from local circulation. Salzburg's mid-17th-century copper issues of this type reflect a broader collapse in small denomination availability across the Holy Roman Empire during and immediately after the Thirty Years' War, when hoarding and reminting drained markets of workable coin.
The Böckstein designation links this piece to a specific issuing locality within the archbishopric rather than the city mint proper.