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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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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue with a completely plain, unstruck reverse field, typical of small fractional ducat klippens and pfennig-weight gold pieces of the period. The surface shows the natural texture of the hammered gold flan with no design, legend, or ornament of any kind. |
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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.