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Zweier - Michael von Kuenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1555-1560 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface coin with a plain, blank reverse field, bearing no design, legend, or device. The reverse retains only the natural texture of the hammered flan, consistent with small-denomination ecclesiastical Pfennig coinage of the mid-sixteenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1555 - - 1556 - - 1557 - - 1558 - - 1559 - - 1560 - - |
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Michael von Kuenburg served as Archbishop of Salzburg from 1554 to 1560, a tenure marked by his cautious navigation of the confessional tensions that were fracturing the Holy Roman Empire following the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. The Zweier — a two-pfennig piece — was the workhorse of small daily transactions in the Alpine salt trade economy that funded the archbishopric's considerable political independence.
Zöttl numbers 479 through 483 indicate at least five recorded die varieties across this short emission window, reflecting the hand-cut nature of dies at the Salzburg mint in this period.