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1/2 Thaler - Ferdinand II Joachimsthal
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1623-1628 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Full-length standing effigy of Emperor Ferdinand II facing front, armored and wearing a crown, holding a scepter in his right hand and an orb in his left. The figure is rendered in high relief with detailed armor articulation typical of early 17th-century Bohemian coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand II's Bohemian coinage of the early 1620s falls squarely within the monetary chaos that followed the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and the subsequent Kipper- und Wipperzeit — a debasement crisis so severe that the Habsburg administration essentially handed minting rights to a private consortium, the "Münzkonsortium," which included Albrecht von Wallenstein. Joachimsthal, one of Bohemia's oldest and most productive silver-mining centers, continued striking through this period, though the consortium years generated enormous controversy over fineness and short-weight output.
KM#350 spans a six-year window, meaning individual pieces will vary in die workmanship as the political and financial pressure on the mints shifted year to year.