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½ Thaler - Ferdinand III Kuttenberg
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1641 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, each head surmounted by an individual crown beneath a large central imperial crown. An ornate shield on the eagle's breast bears the lion of Bohemia, encircled by the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The legend, rendered in Latin, runs around an inner circle, with the date 1641 appearing at the conclusion of the inscription and the Kuttenberg mint mark positioned at the bottom of the field. |
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Ferdinand III inherited the Bohemian crown under the terms that followed the catastrophic defeat of the Protestant estates at White Mountain in 1620, and by 1641 the Thirty Years' War still ground on across the empire. Kuttenberg — Kutná Hora — had been one of Central Europe's premier silver mining centers since the medieval period, and the mint there drew directly on Bohemian ore even as the war disrupted bullion flows elsewhere. The city had changed hands and suffered repeated military occupations in the decades prior.
KM#474 is among the less frequently encountered Kuttenberg half thaler types from Ferdinand's reign, the mint's output fluctuating sharply year to year depending on military requisitions and silver availability.