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1/2 Thaler - Charles III
| Issuer | Transylvania, Principality of |
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| Year | 1724-1735 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the centre of the field, its wings spread and each head facing outward, bearing a complex quartered coat of arms on its breast shield incorporating the arms of Austria, Burgundy, Hungary, Bohemia, and other Habsburg territories. The eagle's talons grasp regalia. A divided Latin legend surrounds the design along the periphery, incorporating the date 1725, with the legend split between the upper and lower portions of the field. The rim is defined by a reeded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | ARCHID AV D BV PR INC TRANSYL 1725 (Translation: `Archidux Austriae, dux Burgundiae, Princeps Transilvaniae` Grand Duke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Prince of Transylvania) |
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Charles III of Habsburg — Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor — governed Transylvania as a conquered hereditary possession following the expulsion of the Ottomans, and his Transylvanian coinage was issued under the authority of the Vienna court rather than any local diet or estates. The years bracketing this issue, 1724–1735, fall squarely within his efforts to consolidate fiscal administration across the Hungarian crown lands through the Pragmatic Sanction framework he was simultaneously pressing European powers to guarantee.
The Kremnitz and Nagybánya mints handled most silver output for the region during this period. Resch's attribution to type 31 places this among a small production run.