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1 Guldiner - Maximilian I. Hall
| Issuer | Habsburg Monarchy |
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| Year | 1490-1519 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored effigy of Emperor Maximilian I facing right, wearing an imperial crown and full plate armor; his right shoulder bears a floriated scepter terminating in a cross-flower finial, while his left hand grasps a sword at the cross-guard. The portrait is rendered in the detailed Gothic figural style characteristic of the Hall mint under Maximilian, conveying regal authority and martial dignity. The effigy is contained within a beaded inner circle, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Hall Guldiner is effectively the founding document of the modern silver coin. Maximilian's Tyrolean mines at Schwaz — among the most productive in Europe at the time — gave him the bullion to attempt something no mint had managed at scale: a large silver coin equivalent in value to the gold Gulden. The first pieces were struck at Hall in the Inn valley in 1486, and the denomination's logic spread across Europe within a generation, directly ancestral to the Thaler and, ultimately, the dollar.
Schwaz production peaked around 1523, but the coins struck under Maximilian himself predate that apex, drawn from mines already operating at extraordinary output during his reign.