2 Thalers - Paris von Lodron Consecration

Paris von Lodron consecrated the new Salzburg Cathedral on September 24, 1628 — a building nearly sixty years in construction following the destruction of the Romanesque original by fire in 1598. This double thaler was struck expressly to commemorate that event, one of the most significant ecclesiastical dedications in the German-speaking world of the seventeenth century. Lodron had personally overseen the cathedral's completion and kept Salzburg out of the Thirty Years' War through careful neutrality, making him an unusually stable issuing authority in an otherwise catastrophic decade for the region.

Zöttl's census lists this as a scarce commemorative, not a circulation piece.