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21/2 Thalers - Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1565 |
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| Value | 21/2 Thalers (2.5) |
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| Obverse description | Quartered coat of arms within a shield: the 1st and 4th quarters bear the collegiate chapter arms, the 2nd quarter the Belasi family arms, and the 3rd quarter the arms of the house of Niederthor. The shield is flanked by the date, with the last two digits split on either side, and is surmounted by episcopal attributes including mitre and crozier. The surrounding field carries the Latin legend identifying the issuing archbishop. |
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| Obverse lettering | IOAN IAC D G ARCHIEPS SALZ APO SE LEG 6 5 |
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Johann Jakob Khuen von Belasi governed Salzburg as Archbishop from 1560 until his death in 1586, presiding over a diocese caught between the pressures of the Counter-Reformation and the lingering fractures left by the Peasants' War of 1525. The 2½ Thaler denomination itself is a deliberate statement of fiscal weight — struck not for ordinary commerce but almost certainly for presentation or treasury use, where multiples of the Thaler served as portable concentrated wealth rather than circulating currency.
Zöttl 595 is among the scarcer multiples from this reign.