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1/2 Thaler - Rudolf II Joachimsthal
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1604-1610 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Mature armored and draped bust of Emperor Rudolf II facing right, wearing elaborately decorated armor with ruffled collar visible at the neck, the hair and beard rendered in fine detail. The legend encircles the bust reading RUDOLPHUS II D G R IS ACH BR RE, denoting his imperial and royal titles. The portrait is rendered in the robust late-Renaissance style characteristic of Joachimsthal coinage of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Mint | Joachimsthal Mint |
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Rudolf II moved his imperial court from Vienna to Prague in 1583, making Bohemia the effective center of Habsburg power for decades. The Joachimsthal mint — the original home of the coin type that gave the word "dollar" its etymology, through "Joachimsthaler" — continued producing silver coinage from the exceptionally rich Erzgebirge mines, though output fluctuated sharply as Rudolf's reign deteriorated into the Bruderzwist, the bitter succession conflict with his brother Matthias that ultimately stripped him of Hungary in 1608 and Moravia in 1609.
The window of 1604–1610 brackets that collapse almost exactly.