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1/8 Ducat / 1 Pfennig - Ferdinand III St Veit
| Issuer | Mint of St. Veit (Sankt Veit an der Glan) |
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| Year | 1639 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Obverse description | The quartered arms of Carinthia (Kärnten) displayed within an ornate rhombus-shaped cartouche, the shield divided into four quarters bearing the characteristic Carinthian panther charges. The date 1639 is split across the left and right sides of the rhombus frame, with decorative foliate scrollwork at each corner of the lozenge. The entire design is set within a beaded or granulated border on the round flan, characteristic of the small hammered gold issues produced at the St. Veit mint under Ferdinand III. |
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| Mint | Sankt Veit an der Glan Mint |
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Ferdinand III issued fractional ducats from the St. Veit mint in Carinthia during a period when the mint was already in steep decline — Sankt Veit an der Glan had been the historic coining center of the Duchy of Carinthia for centuries but was increasingly marginalized by Graz and Vienna in the Habsburg administrative consolidation of the early seventeenth century. A 1/8 ducat at 0.45g represents the practical lower limit of workable gold coinage for the period; producing consistent flans at this weight required considerable skill, and St. Veit's output was never large.
Herinek 1096 is among the scarcer fractional gold attributions from this mint's final active decades.