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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II Klagenfurt

Issuer Austrian Empire
Year 1621
Type Standard circulation coin
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Edge Plain
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Mintage 1621
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Ferdinand II issued this thaler during one of the most violent years of the Thirty Years' War — 1621 saw the execution of twenty-seven Bohemian Protestant leaders on Prague's Old Town Square following the Battle of White Mountain, a direct consequence of the rebellion against Ferdinand's rule. The Klagenfurt mint, operating in Carinthia, was among the provincial Austrian facilities pressed into heavier production as the war's financial demands mounted. Davenport's EC II classification places it within the broader Austrian thaler series of the period, where Klagenfurt output is notably scarcer than Vienna or Graz strikes from the same reign.

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