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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II of Tyrol
| Issuer | Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1584-1595 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINANDVS D G ARCHIDVX AVSTR |
| Reverse description | Crowned manifold coat of arms displaying the complex quartered shield of the Habsburg territories with the central escutcheon bearing the arms of Upper Alsace. The collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece encircle the central achievement. Two smaller shields are positioned flanking the main arms, with the Habsburg shield at left and the County of Ferrette (Pfirt) shield at right. The divided Latin legend naming Ferdinand's title as Duke of Burgundy, Landgrave of Alsace, and Count of Pfirt is distributed in four sections between the heraldic elements. |
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Ferdinand II ruled Tyrol as an archduke from 1564 until his death in 1595, governing Upper Alsace as part of his Anterior Austrian territories. These thalers were struck at the Ensisheim mint, which served as the administrative capital of Habsburg Alsace — a strategically vital corridor connecting Spain's Italian possessions to the Spanish Netherlands along what historians would later call the "Spanish Road." Ferdinand's court at Innsbruck was notably extravagant, and chronic shortfalls in his personal finances meant coinage from these territories served pressing fiscal as well as ceremonial purposes.
The eleven-year emission window covered by Dav EC I#8088 encompasses multiple die marriages catalogued individually by Klemm at #171–180.