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 — a relationship that shaped both his ambitions and his taste for ostentatious display. Multi-ducat gold strikes of this period were not circulation coinage; they functioned as diplomatic gifts and demonstrations of princely wealth, and Salzburg's salt revenues gave Wolf Dietrich the means to produce them convincingly.

His reign ended badly. Defeated by Bavaria in 1611 over a dispute with the Bishop of Passau, he died imprisoned in Hohensalzburg in 1617. The coins preceded the collapse by nearly two decades.