10 Kreuzers - Sigismund von Schrattenbach

This 10 Kreuzer coin was minted in 1754 under the authority of Sigismund von Schrattenbach, who served as the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1753 until 1771. These coins were produced during a period when the Archbishopric functioned as a semi-autonomous ecclesiastical state within the Holy Roman Empire, maintaining its own mint to facilitate trade and assert local political sovereignty.

The design of the coinage from Schrattenbach’s era reflects the late Baroque aesthetic common to the Salzburg mint, featuring the ecclesiastical coat of arms of the Prince-Archbishop on the obverse and religious or heraldic symbolism on the reverse. These pieces were standard circulating currency intended for daily commerce in the region, rather than commemorative issues, and they are noted by numismatists for their historical role in documenting the economic stability of the Archbishopric during the mid-18th century.