Catalog
2 Pfennig - Ferdinand III of Austria-Tuscany
| Issuer | Salzburg, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1805-1806 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Ferdinand III, Elector of Salzburg, facing right, rendered in a simple neoclassical style with defined drapery at the shoulder. The legend encircles the bust along the periphery of the coin, reading FERD· KURFÜRST VON SALZBURG. A small mint mark appears at the base of the bust near the lower rim. The portrait occupies the central field with modest relief typical of early nineteenth-century German small copper coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | FERD· KURFÜRST VON SALZBURG (Translation: Ferdinand Prince Elector of Salzburg) |
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Ferdinand III had ruled Tuscany as a Habsburg grand duke until Napoleon expelled him in 1801, leaving him without a domain for four years. When the Treaty of Pressburg reshuffled central European territories in late 1805, he was assigned Salzburg as compensation — and these copper pfennig pieces belong to that transitional administration, struck during the very brief window between his arrival and Napoleon's further reorganization of the region, which stripped him of Salzburg again by 1806. The electorate itself was secularized that same year.