1/4 Thaler - Rudolf

Rudolf II held the Hungarian crown from 1576 until his forced abdication in 1608, when his brother Matthias — backed by a coalition of Austrian and Hungarian estates — compelled him to surrender the kingdom after years of erratic governance and his near-total withdrawal from public affairs. These quarter thalers span nearly the entire run of that troubled reign, issued continuously through the Long Turkish War of 1593–1606, a conflict that devastated the Hungarian mining towns whose silver fed the very dies that struck them. Kremnica remained the primary source throughout.