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Holy Roman Empire, Archbishopric Salzburg, Hieronymus of Colloredo, Taler 1777

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Holy Roman Empire, Archbishopric Salzburg, Hieronymus of Colloredo, Taler 1777 (obverse) Holy Roman Empire, Archbishopric Salzburg, Hieronymus of Colloredo, Taler 1777 (reverse)

On this taler, a work of the engraver Franz Matzenkopf we see Archbishop Hieronymus Count of Colloredo, the very last reigning archbishop of Salzburg (1772-1803). In 1800, Count of Colloredo had to flee the French revolutionary army; in 1803, the Archbishopric Salzburg was secularized. Count of Colloredo, living in exile in Vienna at that time, renounced his claim for worldly power. He remained religious leader of the archbishopric, however.

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