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6 Kreuzer/Sechser - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1536-1540 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A large cross pattée divides the field into four sectors, each containing alternating shields bearing the arms of Salzburg and the personal arms of Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg. The design is contained within an inner circle, with the Latin legend divided into four segments by the arms of the cross. The inscription records the archbishop's title and the date of issue, distributed across the quadrants in a symmetrical arrangement characteristic of early sixteenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lang von Wellenburg was one of the most politically entangled churchmen of the Reformation period — a close ally of Maximilian I and later Charles V, he spent much of his archepiscopy suppressing Protestant influence in Salzburg while navigating the aftermath of the Peasants' War of 1525, in which insurgents had briefly besieged his own Hohensalzburg fortress. The 6 Kreuzer denomination itself was a practical response to the chronic shortage of mid-value silver in Alpine trade circuits during this decade.
Zöttl numbers 252 through 256 reflect die variations across the four-year run rather than distinct issues.