2 Mark - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg Sweden, Countermarked

Max Gandolf von Kuenburg served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 until his death in 1687, a tenure defined in part by his aggressive expulsion of Protestants from the Salzburg territories — a policy that predated the more famous mass expulsion of 1731 by decades. The countermark applied to this piece reflects the archbishopric's persistent need to validate and recirculate foreign or older silver coinage within its jurisdiction, a practice common among the ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire where mint output rarely kept pace with commercial demand.

The Zöttl reference numbers spanning a variety range suggest this countermark type appears across several host coin combinations, and the Swedish attribution points to riksdaler-series silver entering Austrian circulation through trade or military payment channels during the post-Thirty Years' War period.