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1/2 Thaler - Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1553-1556 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1526-1754) |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Ferdinand I facing right, wearing elaborately decorated floral armor. The king holds a long scepter topped with a tulip finial in his right hand and a short mace in his left. The effigy is crowned, with the bust rendered in a detailed Renaissance style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Central European coinage. The royal legend encircles the bust within a beaded inner circle. |
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| Reverse description | A crowned one-headed eagle displayed with wings spread, bearing on its breast a quartered heraldic shield containing the Árpád stripes of Hungary, the Hungarian patriarchal double cross, the Dalmatian leopard heads, and the Bohemian lion; a smaller inescutcheon at the center of the breast displays the Austrian fess (horizontal bar). Above the eagle, the crowned Madonna is depicted facing forward, holding the Christ Child on her right arm and a scepter in her left hand. The mint mark of Kremnica (K-B) appears on either side of the eagle within the inner pearl circle. The reverse legend encircles the design, with the date appearing within the inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | INF · HISPA · ARCHIDV · AVSTRI · DVX · BVR · 1556 · (Translation: Infans Hispaniae Archidux Austriae Dux Burgundiae - Crown Prince of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy) |
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