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1 Ducat - Leopold I Graz
| Issuer | Habsburg Mint, Graz |
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| Year | 1693 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Reverse description | Elaborately quartered and crowned baroque coat of arms of the Habsburg dynasty, centrally positioned within a decorative cartouche, supported by baroque scrollwork and ornamental framing. The divided date 16-93 appears at the upper left and upper right of the shield, flanking the imperial crown at the top. The circular Latin legend surrounds the entire design within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Leopold I ruled for 47 years — the longest reign of any Habsburg emperor to that point — and his ducat coinage accordingly sprawls across dozens of mints and die varieties. The Graz mint, operating under Styrian provincial authority, produced its own distinct issues distinguished from Vienna and Kremnitz strikes by subtly different die work and the characteristic Graz mintmark.
1693 falls in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Vienna (1683), during which Leopold had famously fled the city as Ottoman forces approached. The decade following that siege saw aggressive Habsburg military expansion into Hungary, financed in part by gold coinage from peripheral mints like Graz.