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1/2 Thaler - Ferdinand III Vienna
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1637-1649 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle with wings displayed, bearing on its breast a quartered heraldic shield of the Habsburg territories, including the arms of Austria, Burgundy, Castile, Leon, and Tyrol. The date appears to the left of the crown in the upper field. The surrounding legend reads ARCHID AVS DVX BVR CO TYR EC, divided by the eagle's wings, running clockwise along the outer border. |
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Ferdinand III inherited the Thirty Years' War from his father and spent virtually his entire reign trying to end it, finally achieving the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The halfthalers struck across this period financed a Habsburg war machine that was, by the 1640s, largely dependent on Spanish subsidies and increasingly desperate credit arrangements with Viennese banking houses.
Herinek's broad reference range of 516–529 reflects genuine die proliferation — the Vienna mint was under sustained pressure to produce specie throughout the war years, and consistency of dies was a secondary concern to output volume.