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Zweier - Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Salzburg |
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| Year | 1586-1598 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1586 - - 1587 - - 1588 - - 1589 - - 1590 - - 1591 - - 1592 - - 1593 - (fr) Zöttl#1021 - 1594 - - 1595 - - 1596 - - 1597 - - 1598 - - |
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Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau became Archbishop of Salzburg in 1587 at just 28 years old, backed by his family's connections to the Roman Curia — his great-uncle had been Pope Pius IV. His reign was architecturally transformative; he demolished much of medieval Salzburg to rebuild it in Italian Baroque style, a project driven as much by personal ambition as by genuine Counter-Reformation zeal. The small silver Zweier circulating under his authority funded a city being physically reinvented around its issuer's ego.
Wolf Dietrich's rule ended badly — imprisoned in 1612 by his own chapter after a war with Bavaria, he died in captivity in 1617.