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1 Thaler - Ferdinand I Tin strike; Joachimsthal
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1529 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and armored half-length effigy of Ferdinand I facing left, holding an upright sword in his right hand and a sceptre in his left, dividing the date in Roman numerals (MDXXVIIII) to either side. The portrait is rendered in the late Gothic to early Renaissance style typical of early Joachimsthal coinage. A beaded inner circle with inward dents frames the central device, with a cross positioned at the top of the circle. The royal legend is disposed around the inner circle in Latin characters. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Joachimsthal — the valley of St. Joachim in northwestern Bohemia — gave the thaler its name, and by 1529 the Counts of Schlick were still nominally operating the mint under Ferdinand I's increasingly firm hand. Ferdinand had moved to curtail Schlick control of the prolific silver operation following his assumption of the Bohemian crown in 1526, and this piece dates precisely to that contested transition period.
Tin strikes of this type were produced as presentation or record pieces, not for circulation. The specific catalogue references here — particularly Davenport EC I#8040 — place this firmly in the early thaler series before standardization of the Joachimsthal dies tightened under direct Habsburg administration.