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2 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1786-1791 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | II PFEN NING 1791 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo ruled Salzburg from 1772 until Napoleon's forces effectively ended the prince-archbishopric in 1803. An ardent Josephinist, he imposed sweeping ecclesiastical reforms that made him genuinely despised by much of his subjects — and earned him the lasting enmity of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who served under him and was famously dismissed, by his own account, with a kick to the backside from Colloredo's chief steward in 1781.
These small copper pieces were struck during a period of fiscal pressure common to most of the smaller German ecclesiastical states in the late Imperial period. Colloredo fled Salzburg in 1800, never to return.