Khuen von Belasi's tenure as Archbishop of Salzburg was marked by his staunch role in the Counter-Reformation, presiding over a diocese that remained a Catholic stronghold as Protestant influence spread through neighboring territories. These small silver issues served the dense transactional economy of the Salzach corridor, where mining wealth from the Hallein salt works and surrounding silver districts kept the archiepiscopal mint consistently active through the mid-sixteenth century.
Zöttl 718–720 distinguishes at least three die variants across the three-year production window.
Khuen von Belasi's tenure as Archbishop of Salzburg was marked by his staunch role in the Counter-Reformation, presiding over a diocese that remained a Catholic stronghold as Protestant influence spread through neighboring territories. These small silver issues served the dense transactional economy of the Salzach corridor, where mining wealth from the Hallein salt works and surrounding silver districts kept the archiepiscopal mint consistently active through the mid-sixteenth century.
Zöttl 718–720 distinguishes at least three die variants across the three-year production window.