5 Kreuzers - Hieronymus von Colloredo

Hieronymus von Colloredo became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1772 following a contentious conclave — he was elected only on the final ballot after weeks of deadlock. His tenure is remembered less for ecclesiastical matters than for his aggressive Enlightenment reforms, which alienated the Salzburg clergy and, famously, drove Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of his court employment by 1781. These kreuzers were struck in the early years of that fraught administration, when Colloredo was still consolidating authority over a principality that would survive him by barely three decades before secularization dissolved it entirely.