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⅓ Thaler - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg Mansfeld-Eisleben, Countermarked
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Reverse description | A crowned composite heraldic shield bearing the quartered coat of arms of the Counts of Mansfeld, centred within the design and flanking the date divided as '16' and '70' on either side. The initials of the engraver 'AB K' appear in the lower field adjacent to the date. The legend is arranged around a plain inner circle, with all lettering in capital Roman characters typical of late seventeenth-century German coinage. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Max Gandolf von Kuenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 to 1687, ruled during a period of aggressive Catholic consolidation — he is most notoriously remembered for expelling the Protestant miners of the Defereggental in 1684. The countermark applied to this Mansfeld-Eisleben host coin reflects a common Salzburg practice of validating foreign silver for local circulation rather than recoining it outright, a pragmatic response to chronic shortages of locally struck divisional silver.
Mansfeld-Eisleben coinage was produced in the copper-mining counties of Saxony, and pieces circulated widely across the Holy Roman Empire. The Zöttl reference spans three sub-varieties distinguished by countermark placement and die state.