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1682, Salzburg, Maximilian Gandolph. Large Silver 7-Saints Thaler Coin. VF-
Commemorating the 1100the Anniversary of the Bishopric. RR!

Mint Year: 1682
Mint Place: Salzburg
Ruler (Archibishop): Maximilian Gandolph
Condition: Lightly chased fields, otherwise VF+
Reference: Probszt 1651, Davenport 3509, KM-233. R!
Denomination: Thaler - 1100th Anniversary of the founding of the Salzburg Bishopric Commemorative.
Weight: 28.15gm
Diameter: 44mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: Illuminated triangle containing God´s all seeing eye above Archepiscopal coat-of-arms, flanked by the Saints Rupert & Virgil.
Legend: ANNO M : DC . LXXXIII . FUNDATI ARCHIEPISCOPAT9 SALISB : VNDECIMO SAECULO . *
Comment: St. Rupert standing right, holding covered salt cellar in right hand and crozier in left, and St. Virgil standing left, holding crozier in right hand and pointing to cathedral with left. Engraver´s initials (P-S) on either side of arms.

Reverse: Nimbate St. Martin of Tours in episcopal regalia with goose at feet standing left, raising right hand in benediction and holding crozier in left, and the martyrs Vincentius, in deaconal vestments, Hermes, in military outfit and holding sword set on ground in left hand, Chrysanthus, in military outfit and holding rock in left hand, and Daria, holding rock in right hand, each holding palm, standing below clouds with rays of the sun breaking through.
Legend: TRANSLATIÁ MAX : GAND : EX COMIT : DE KVENBURG ARCHIEP : & PR : SALISB : S : SED : AP : LEG *
Exergue: SS : MARTINVS EP : VIN- / CENTIVS M : HERMES M : / CHRYSANTHVS : : ET / DARIA MM :

For your consideration a beautiful silver thaler, issued by the Bishopric of Salzburg on its 1100th anniversary. The festivities during that year included a procession during which relics of the depicted saints (St. Martin, Vincentius, Hermes, Chrysanthus & Daria) were carried thru the streets of the City in a long procession. This is why this type is also known as the 7-Saints thaler. A very rare and desirable type!

The Archbishopric of Salzburg was an ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire, roughly consisting of the present-day state of Salzburg (the ancient Roman city of Iuvavum) in Austria.

Maximilian Gandolph, was born in 1622 of an old noble family in Ganz, Styria and was elected as Archbishop of Salzburg in 1668. Even in the beginning of Archbishop Max Gandolph's rule, other problems took precedence. In 1669, 62 Dürrnberger mine workers drowned in salt.

On July 16, 1669, a landslide k!lled 200 people. Gandolph's reign was not free from war worries either: France occupied Lorraine in 1670, and raised territorial claims to which Gandolph responded with a contingent under Major von Freysing. A Turkish danger threatened Vienna in the year 1683. Lastly, the infamous Black Jacket witch trials, where 200 people had been tortured and k!lled at the behest of Gandolph, had just ended.

Therefore, after around 1683, Gandolph had more time to devote to the issue of religious dissent, and he did not like dissent. He was, above all else, an administrator with a taste for regulation and rules. Under his reign, new regulations were issued in abundance and included, among other things, new police regulations, fire prevention orders, safety ordinances, firearms laws, loitering regulations, an alms order of 1678 which included a 'beggar land registry', a cleanliness order for the roads and disease protection regulations in 1679. A cleanliness order for religion was next.