8 Kreuzers Meat, Landmark Money, Böckstein

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.