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1 Thaler - Charles II Francis of Austria Graz
| Issuer | Styria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1576-1579 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS D G ARCHIDVX AVSTRIÆ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Charles II ruled Inner Austria — Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola — as a separate Habsburg appanage following the partition of Ferdinand I's territories among his sons in 1564. The Graz mint operated under his direct authority, and these thalers were struck during a period of acute Ottoman pressure on his southeastern frontier and simultaneous pressure from Protestant estates within his own lands. Charles was a committed Counter-Reformation ruler who would later found the Jesuit college at Graz that eventually became Karl-Franzens-Universität.
His son, born at Graz in 1578, would become Emperor Ferdinand II — architect of the Edict of Restitution.