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2 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1791-1801 |
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| Weight | 2.74 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination and date are inscribed in four lines across the central field in bold Roman lettering: II / PFEN / NING / 1794. The date and denomination are framed at the base by a symmetrical open laurel wreath, with branches curving upward from a tied bow at the bottom, lending a formal decorative character to the otherwise plain typographic reverse. |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo is remembered less for his coinage than for his bitter falling-out with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom he employed as court musician and ultimately dismissed in 1781 — reportedly with a literal kick from his secretary's boot. His rule over Salzburg ended abruptly when Napoleon's campaigns dissolved the ecclesiastical principality in 1803, making these final copper issues among the last coins struck under Salzburg's centuries-old archiepiscopal authority.