Salzburg's wine trade carried its own parallel economy well into the eighteenth century, with separate tariff tokens and market pieces issued specifically to facilitate wine tax payments at point of sale — this 4 Kreuzer piece being among the more localized expressions of that system under Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach, who governed the see from 1709 until his death in 1727. The Zöttl reference places this among a tightly catalogued series of Salzburg copper issues that rarely traveled far from the archbishopric's markets.
Salzburg's wine trade carried its own parallel economy well into the eighteenth century, with separate tariff tokens and market pieces issued specifically to facilitate wine tax payments at point of sale — this 4 Kreuzer piece being among the more localized expressions of that system under Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach, who governed the see from 1709 until his death in 1727. The Zöttl reference places this among a tightly catalogued series of Salzburg copper issues that rarely traveled far from the archbishopric's markets.