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1/2 Thaler - Matthias II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1617-1619 |
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| Weight | 14.41 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MATTHIAS + D + G + RO + IM + S + AV + GE + HV + + BO + REX * |
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Matthias II spent much of his reign managing the impossible: holding the Habsburg composite monarchy together as confessional tensions across Bohemia, Austria, and Hungary accelerated toward open war. His Hungarian half thalers were struck across a political landscape of noble diet negotiations and religious concessions — the 1617 Bohemian succession crisis, which would ignite into the Thirty Years' War the year after this series closed, consumed much of the court's attention during exactly these mint years.
The Kremnica mint struck the bulk of Hungarian silver in this period, feeding both domestic circulation and the insatiable demand for specie along the Ottoman frontier.