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5 Kreuzer - Hieronymus von Colloredo
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1793-1802 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#477, Zöttl#3332-3341 |
| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered arms of the Archbishopric of Salzburg — combining the episcopal moor's head and the Salzburg fess — surmounted by a princely crown topped with a cross. The shield is supported by two rampant lions as heraldic supporters, and flanked on either side by olive or laurel branches forming a partial wreath. The numeral '5', denoting the denomination, appears in the lower exergue below the shield. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.