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1 Ducat - Ferdinand I Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1553-1559 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Emperor Ferdinand I, clad in elaborate suit of armour, holding a sceptre in his right hand and resting his left hand on the pommel of a sword at his side. The figure stands on a small groundline and divides the encircling Latin legend, which is separated from the central field by a beaded inner circle. The treatment of the armour is rendered in fine hammered detail characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Habsburg coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand I acquired Carinthia — with Klagenfurt as its capital — through the Habsburg partition of 1521, when his brother Charles V took Spain and the western territories while Ferdinand absorbed the Austrian hereditary lands. The Klagenfurt mint operated intermittently under Ferdinand, and its ducat output across this six-year window was modest enough that individual die marriages within the Markl range show meaningful variation in style and execution — a consequence of multiple engravers working without rigid standardization.
Ferdinand's 1559 abdication of the Austrian lands in favor of his son Maximilian effectively ended this mint's ducat production under his name.