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1 Guldenthaler - Charles II Francis of Austria Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Carinthia, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1565-1574 |
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| Reference(s) | Dav ECT#49, Vogelhuber#82 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Composite heraldic shield of flat-topped form bearing the quartered arms of the Habsburg hereditary lands, with the escutcheon of Carinthia (Kärnten) at centre. Four subsidiary shields are arranged within the legend at cardinal points: Austria at top, Styria at right, Carniola (Krain) at left, and Gorizia (Görz) at base. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, and the date appears at the conclusion of the encircling Latin legend. |
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Charles II — the Inner Austrian archduke who ruled Carinthia, Styria, and Carniola as a separate Habsburg appanage after the 1564 partition of Ferdinand I's territories — struck this guldenthaler at Klagenfurt during a period of acute confessional tension. He was himself Catholic but governed a nobility overwhelmingly Lutheran, a contradiction he tolerated for political survival until the 1570s, when Counter-Reformation pressure from Rome and Madrid stiffened his hand. The Klagenfurt mint operated under these conditions throughout the entire emission span covered by this type.
Davenport's ECT#49 grouping spans nearly a decade of dies, meaning individual pieces can vary considerably in sharpness depending on die state.