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4 Ducats - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1682 |
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| Weight | 13.95 g |
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| Reverse description | Five haloed saints stand in a row across the field beneath descending rays of divine light emanating from clouds above. From left to right appear: Saint Martin of Tours vested as a bishop holding a crozier, with a goose at his feet; Saint Vincent of Saragossa as a deacon; a winged angel-like figure at centre; Saint Chrysanthus as a soldier bearing a palm of martyrdom; and Saint Daria holding a lion. Each figure is rendered in finely detailed high-relief Baroque style. A cartouche at the base of the design contains the identifying legend naming all five saints and recording their translation, with the inscription divided across five lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | SS MARTIN9 EP. VINCEN-TI9 M. HERMES M. CHRY-SANTH9 ET DARIA M.M. TRANS-LATI |
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Max Gandolf von Kuenburg ruled as Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 until his death in 1687, and his tenure is inseparable from one of the most brutal episodes of post-Reformation persecution: the expulsion of thousands of Protestant crypto-Lutherans from the archbishopric's mountain valleys. His 1682 coin production falls squarely within that campaign, the same year pressure on the so-called "Deferdanten" was intensifying toward the mass expulsions that followed.
Four-ducat multiples from Salzburg's archiepiscopal mint were never circulation pieces — struck as presentation gifts and diplomatic currency among the imperial nobility.