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8 Kreuzers Meat, Landmark Money, Böckstein
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1641 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the monogram FIP arranged vertically, with the date 1641 flanked to either side of the letters in two pairs (16 and 41). Below the monogram, the Roman numeral denomination VIII is boldly rendered in two rows. At the base of the coin, a recumbent ox or cow is depicted in low relief, facing right. Small decorative rosette or cross ornaments appear in the lower left and right fields flanking the denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the monogram FIP arranged vertically, with the Roman numeral denomination VIII rendered prominently below in two rows. A recumbent ox or cow is depicted in low relief at the base of the coin, facing right, consistent with the obverse type. Small decorative rosette or cross ornaments appear in the upper left and right fields flanking the monogram. The design is without a surrounding legend, the entire composition occupying the plain field. |
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Fleischkreuzer — "meat kreuzers" — were emergency municipal tokens issued to regulate the butcher trade during periods when small silver coinage had effectively disappeared from local circulation. Salzburg's 1641 copper issue belongs to this tradition: a stop-gap instrument tied directly to the meat market rather than general commerce, accepted at the butcher's stall and typically redeemable only within a narrow geographic and commercial scope.
The Böckstein designation locates this piece within the mining district of the Gastein valley, where the archbishopric maintained distinct monetary arrangements tied to the silver mining economy — an irony not lost on collectors, given that copper tokens filled the void in a region that produced some of the finest silver ore in the Holy Roman Empire.