1 Thaler - Ferdinand II Klagenfurt

Ferdinand II issued this Klagenfurt thaler in 1619, the same year he was elected Holy Roman Emperor and began systematically dismantling Protestant privileges across his hereditary lands — the opening moves of what would become the Thirty Years' War. Carinthia, with Klagenfurt as its capital, had been a stronghold of Protestant nobility, and Ferdinand had already expelled Protestant preachers from the province in 1600 during his earlier campaign of forced re-Catholicization.

The Klagenfurt mint operated under provincial administration and struck thalers with noticeably variable die alignment relative to the Hall and Graz issues of the same reign.