1 Kreuzer - Ferdinand II St Veit

These issues span the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, when Ferdinand II was simultaneously prosecuting military campaigns across the Empire and pushing aggressive Counter-Reformation policies through his hereditary lands. Carinthia's Protestant nobility had largely been expelled or forcibly converted by 1628 — the same year this type ceases. The St. Veit mint, one of the oldest in the Habsburg hereditary territories, was producing small billon coinage at scale to meet the chronic shortage of petty currency that wartime disruption and deliberate currency debasement had created throughout the region.