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1 Ducat - Ferdinand I Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1553-1559 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat |
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| Reverse description | Crowned heraldic shield of Carinthia, displaying the characteristic panther device, centred within a beaded inner circle. The shield is surmounted by an ornate crown. The date appears at the top of the field, flanked by the encircling Latin legend which identifies the ruler's full royal and archducal titles. The overall composition is typical of Habsburg provincial gold coinage of the Klagenfurt mint. |
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| Mint | Klagenfurt Mint |
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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.