5 Ducats - Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau

Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1587 at just 28 years old, backed by his Medici connections through his mother's family. He spent lavishly — demolishing the old cathedral and commissioning what was to become one of the most ambitious baroque building programs north of the Alps. Multi-ducat gold pieces of this type funded, and in part symbolized, that ambition; Salzburg's salt revenues made such strikes financially viable when most German ecclesiastical mints were issuing silver.

Wolf Dietrich's reign ended in 1612 when he was deposed by a coalition led by Maximilian I of Bavaria, partly over his open relationship with Salome Alt. He died imprisoned in the Hohensalzburg fortress in 1617.