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⅔ Thaler - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg Anhalt-Zerbst, Countermarked
| Issuer | Bishopric of Salzburg (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Max Gandolf von Kuenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 to 1687, was an aggressive centralizer who used coinage as an instrument of fiscal control across his territories. This piece belongs to a specific category of countermarked issues: host coins — typically foreign ⅔ Thalers flooding into the region — that were officially restruck with a Salzburg mark to validate them for local circulation, effectively taxing the convenience of their use. The practice was widespread among German ecclesiastical states during the 1670s–80s as the ⅔ Thaler became the dominant trade denomination across the Reich.
Zöttl 2088.58 places this among a documented series, but individual countermark placement varies considerably across surviving specimens.