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1 Thaler - Caspar Ignaz von Künigl
| Issuer | Bishopric of Brixen |
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| Year | 1710 |
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| Diameter | 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Bishop Caspar Ignaz von Künigl facing right, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments with a mozzetta and pectoral cross visible at the truncation. The effigy is rendered in high relief in the Baroque style, with flowing hair falling to the shoulders. A mint mark device appears at the base of the bust. The Latin legend surrounds the portrait along the outer border, within a toothed rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Caspar Ignaz von Künigl became Prince-Bishop of Brixen in 1702 and spent much of his tenure navigating the brutal pressures of the War of the Spanish Succession, which devastated Tyrolean trade routes and strained the financial resources of ecclesiastical mints across the region. This thaler dates to the middle of that conflict, three years before the Peace of Utrecht reshuffled Habsburg dependencies across Europe.
Brixen's mint output under Künigl was modest, and thalers of this type survive in genuinely low numbers — attrition from circulation and melting rather than any single catastrophic event.