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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II Graz

Issuer Graz Mint
Year 1621
Type Standard circulation coin
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Ferdinand II issued this thaler from Graz in 1621, the year he consolidated imperial authority following the catastrophic defeat of the Bohemian Estates at White Mountain in November 1620. The Graz mint had been the primary striking facility for Inner Austria since the late sixteenth century, and Ferdinand — archduke there before his election as emperor — maintained it as a productive secondary operation even after the imperial court shifted definitively to Vienna.

The Herinek references 414 and 415 indicate at least two distinct die combinations for this date, a not uncommon situation for Graz production in this period given the volume of silver flowing through Styrian channels during the early Thirty Years' War.

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