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1/4 Thaler - Matthias II Kuttenberg
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1613-1619 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Emperor Matthias II facing right, wearing a ruffled lace collar and elaborately decorated armor with a gorget, the portrait rendered in high relief in the late Renaissance style. Small decorative stars appear in the lower field flanking the bust. The circular legend surrounding the effigy reads MATTHIAS D G R I S A G H BO REX, abbreviating his full imperial and royal titles in Latin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Matthias II was crowned King of Bohemia in 1611 under duress — his brother Rudolf II, increasingly erratic and isolated in Prague, was forced to abdicate the Bohemian throne after Matthias marched on the city with Hungarian and Moravian troops. The Kuttenberg mint, one of Bohemia's oldest silver-producing facilities drawing on the Kutná Hora deposits that had funded Bohemian kings since the 13th century, struck this quarter thaler across the full span of Matthias's reign. He died in March 1619, within months of the Defenestration of Prague that ignited the Thirty Years' War — a conflict he did not live to see unfold.