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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II Hall
| Issuer | Tyrol, County of |
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| Year | 1577-1599 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The elaborate quartered arms of the Archduke as representative of the Spanish Habsburg line: the shield is divided into four principal quarters, the first bearing the arms of Hungary, the second of Bohemia, the third counter-quartered with Castile and Leon, and the fourth counter-quartered with Austria and Burgundy. The shield is encircled by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, with the suspended fleece pendant cutting into the legend at the base. A small inescutcheon at fess point displays the Tyrolean eagle. The encircling Latin legend reads: DVX BVRGVNDI COMES TIROLIS. |
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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, ruled from Innsbruck and maintained the Hall mint as one of the most technically sophisticated operations in the Habsburg territories. He was an obsessive collector — his Kunstkammer at Ambras Castle is now considered a foundational institution in the history of European museums — and that sensibility extended to the coinage issued under his authority. Hall's output during his reign was consistently among the finest silver work in the Alps.
He died in 1595, making pieces struck after that date transitional issues produced under the administration managing the succession to Rudolf II.