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2 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1791 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Crowned shield of the arms of Salzburg, displaying the characteristic divided coat of arms, set above a decorative wreath. The mintmark letters 'S B' appear prominently within the field, flanking the shield. The design is rendered in a plain, utilitarian style typical of late 18th-century Austrian ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo is remembered today almost exclusively as Mozart's employer — and the man Mozart despised. As Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772, Colloredo was an ardent Josephinist reformer who curtailed Church ceremony, dissolved monasteries, and overhauled the principality's finances. This minor copper issue dates to the final years of his secular rule; the French Revolutionary Wars would soon upend the ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire entirely, and Colloredo was permanently driven from Salzburg by Napoleon's forces in 1800, ending centuries of archiepiscopal coinage.