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1/2 Thaler - Ferdinand I Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1521-1564 |
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| Reverse description | An eagle displayed facing left, bearing upon its breast an escutcheon charged with the arms of Carinthia, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The heraldic composition is rendered in the typical style of early sixteenth-century Habsburg coinage. The reverse legend in Latin continues the royal and archducal titulature of Ferdinand I, running along the outer border. |
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| Reverse lettering | +INF HISPA ACHIDVX CARINTIE D BV |
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Ferdinand I acquired Carinthia as part of the Habsburg partition of 1521, when Charles V ceded the Austrian hereditary lands to his younger brother. Klagenfurt became the ducal capital only in 1518, three years before Ferdinand's rule began, having been purchased from the Estates — making this issue among the earliest struck there under Habsburg authority.
Markl 1462 places this within a well-documented but scarce series. The forty-three year reign span means dies and mintmasters changed repeatedly, and attributing specific strikes to narrow date ranges within that window remains genuinely difficult.