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2 Pfennig - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1802 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crowned tripartite shield bearing the arms of Salzburg: the dexter field displays a rampant lion, while the sinister field is divided quarterly with horizontal lines, representing the ecclesiastical and secular arms of the archbishopric. The legend SALZBURG arcs across the upper field, flanking the crown of the shield. The design is rendered in a plain, utilitarian style characteristic of late 18th-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | *2* PFEN NING 1802 * |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo is better remembered as Mozart's employer — and the archbishop who famously dismissed him with what contemporaries described as a kick — than as a monetary authority. This 1802 copper issue came near the end of his reign; Napoleon's reorganization of German ecclesiastical territories under the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 would dissolve the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg entirely the following year, ending over a millennium of ecclesiastical rule. Colloredo fled, never returned, and died in Vienna in 1812.
Among the final coinages of an independent Salzburg.