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5 Kreuzer - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1793-1802 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold, multi-line inscription filling the entire field, stating the fineness and weight standard: 'CCXL / EINE / FEINE / MARC' (240 to one fine mark), with the mint year below. A small symmetrical sprig of laurel or olive branches decorates the lower portion of the field beneath the date, serving as the sole ornamental element on an otherwise text-dominated design. |
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| Mintage | 1793 - - 1794 - - 1795 - - 1796 - - 1797 - - 1798 - - 1799 - - 1800 - - 1801 - - 1802 - - |
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Hieronymus von Colloredo is remembered today primarily as Mozart's employer — and the man Mozart despised enough to engineer his own dismissal from Salzburg court service in 1781. His archiepiscopate ran from 1772 until Napoleon's dissolution of the ecclesiastical principality in 1803, and these small billon kreuzer were among the last coins struck under independent Salzburg authority before the archbishopric was secularized and absorbed into Austria.
The Zöttl reference spans ten distinct varieties across the issue's nine-year run, suggesting consistent die replacement rather than any single major revision.