2 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo

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.