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Denier - Pilgrim II
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1365-1396 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the heraldic shield of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, struck in low relief on an irregularly shaped hammered flan. The shield displays the characteristic arms of the see — a black lion on a gold ground for the secular lordship, impaled with or quartered by the ecclesiastical arms — rendered schematically in the manner of late medieval Austrian pfennig coinage. No surrounding legend is present, the design being purely armorial in character. The striking is crude and the flan edges are irregular, consistent with hand-struck bracteate-related small silver coinage of the fourteenth century. No inner circle or border ornament is definitively present. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pilgrim II served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1365 to 1396, a tenure defined largely by his bitter jurisdictional conflicts with the Habsburgs and his efforts to maintain the archbishopric's independence as a temporal power. Salzburg's right to mint its own coinage was central to that autonomy, and the denier series issued under his name represents the archbishopric exercising that right at a moment of real political pressure.
The CNA reference places this squarely within Corpus Nummorum Austriacorum classification, the standard scholarly framework for Austrian medieval coinage.