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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II of Tyrol

Issuer Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of
Year 1584-1595
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Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (1584-1595)
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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, governed Upper Alsace as part of his broader Habsburg territorial holdings until his death in 1595. His administration of the Alsatian lands was largely delegated through the Ensisheim regency government, and the coinage issued under his name there reflects the decentralized minting arrangements typical of Habsburg peripheral territories in the later sixteenth century. The Ensisheim mint was the operative facility for this issue.

The .875 fineness places this squarely within post-Augsburg standard silver — the 1559 Imperial Coinage Ordinance having set the benchmark that most Habsburg mints nominally followed, with varying degrees of compliance.

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