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2 Kreuzers - Sigismund von Schrattenbach
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1758-1760 |
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| Value | 2 Kreuzers (1⁄30) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered shield of arms displayed within an ornate baroque cartouche, combining the arms of Salzburg (horizontal bars) and Austria (fess), surmounted by a princely hat or mitre with elaborate foliate and scroll mantling flanking the shield on either side. The design fills the field to the inner border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sigismund von Schrattenbach ruled Salzburg from 1753 until his death in 1771, and these small billon pieces circulated during a period when the archbishopric was quietly accumulating debt from ambitious building campaigns. He was also the employer who hired Leopold Mozart in 1743 — and who would later grant the young Wolfgang extended leave for Italian tours, a tolerance his successor Colloredo famously did not share.