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4 Thalers - Paris von Lodron Consecration
| Issuer | Salzburg, Archbishopric of |
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| Year | 1628 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | ECCLES METROP SALISB DEDICATVR 25 SEPT A PARIDE ARCHIE 1628 (Translation: Consecration of the Metropolitan Church of Salzburg by the Archbishop Paris.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Paris von Lodron consecrated the new Salzburg Cathedral on September 25, 1628 — the culmination of a project begun under his predecessor Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, whose original structure had burned in 1598. The consecration ceremony drew dignitaries from across the Holy Roman Empire at a moment when the Thirty Years' War was actively devastating much of Central Europe, making Lodron's achievement of keeping Salzburg neutral and prosperous enough to complete such a building genuinely remarkable.
The multiple-thaler denominations struck for this event were presentation pieces, not circulation coinage. Zöttl's census documents the 4-thaler as among the rarest of the consecration series.