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1 Ducat - Ferdinand I Hall
| Issuer | Hall Mint (County of Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1552 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | DIVVS LEOPOLDVS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand I inherited Tyrol as part of the Habsburg partition of 1522, when his brother Charles V took the Spanish and Burgundian territories while Ferdinand received the Austrian lands. Hall, on the Inn River, had been the primary mint for Tyrolean gold since the late fifteenth century, its position along major trade routes making ducat production there both practical and commercially necessary. The Hall mint's output during Ferdinand's reign is well documented, and MT#154 sits within a coherent series rather than as an isolated type.
The .979 fineness reflects the established ducat standard that Habsburg mints were bound to observe under imperial coinage agreements — deviation was a political matter, not merely a technical one.