1/2 Thaler - Charles VI Kuttenberg

Charles VI was still consolidating Habsburg authority over Bohemia when this piece was struck at Kuttenberg — the Kutná Hora mint, one of the oldest and most historically significant silver-striking facilities in Central Europe, having supplied coinage to the Bohemian crown since the thirteenth century. By 1712 its output was declining relative to the great Vienna and Prague establishments, and the facility would see progressively reduced production through the remainder of the century.

The Her#500 and Diet#994 concordance references suggest a well-documented but modestly encountered type — Herinek's catalog of Austrian thaler-sized coinage places this issue firmly in the transitional period following Charles's Spanish claim collapse at the Peace of Utrecht, which was still being negotiated that same year.