1 Reichsthaler - 72 kreuzer - Ferdinand I Hall

Ferdinand I established the Hall mint in Tyrol as the primary source for large silver thalers during his reign, drawing directly on the rich silver deposits of the Schwaz mines — at mid-century still among the most productive in Europe. The 72-kreuzer valuation places this piece within the complex reckoning system Ferdinand was attempting to rationalize across his disparate Habsburg territories, a project that occupied imperial monetary policy throughout the 1550s.

The Davenport EC I reference situates this firmly in the early thaler series before the 1559 coinage reforms tightened standards across Austrian mints.