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1 Ducat - Ferdinand I Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1558-1564 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | BO ZC REX IN HI ARCH AV E CA ZC 15+64 |
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Ferdinand I ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 1556 until his death in 1564, but his authority over the Austrian hereditary lands — Carinthia included — predated that title by decades. Klagenfurt had only been formally ceded to the Habsburgs by the Estates of Carinthia in 1518, and ducal coinage struck there carried persistent symbolic weight in reinforcing Habsburg legitimacy over a region that had effectively negotiated its own transfer.
The Fr#42 ducats of this period are notable for a relatively tight production window. Ferdinand died July 25, 1564, making any surviving example from that final year particularly scarce by attrition.