Sigismund of Tyrol abdicated in 1490, ceding his territories to Maximilian I, yet coinage continued to be struck in his name at Hall for decades afterward — a deliberate political fiction maintained to preserve local monetary continuity. The Fr#6 / MT#46 type spans a production window of nearly thirty years under this arrangement, making individual die dating nearly impossible without reference to known die studies.
Hall's mint was among the most productive in the Habsburg lands, fed directly by the silver — and to a lesser extent gold — extraction from the Schwaz mines upstream in the Inn Valley.
Sigismund of Tyrol abdicated in 1490, ceding his territories to Maximilian I, yet coinage continued to be struck in his name at Hall for decades afterward — a deliberate political fiction maintained to preserve local monetary continuity. The Fr#6 / MT#46 type spans a production window of nearly thirty years under this arrangement, making individual die dating nearly impossible without reference to known die studies.
Hall's mint was among the most productive in the Habsburg lands, fed directly by the silver — and to a lesser extent gold — extraction from the Schwaz mines upstream in the Inn Valley.