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| Issuer | Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1584-1595 |
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| Reference(s) | KLEM#161-170 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, governed Further Austria — which included the Landgraviate of Upper Alsace — from Innsbruck until his death in 1595. These thalers were struck at the Ensisheim mint, the administrative capital of Habsburg Further Austria in the region. Ferdinand had a well-documented obsession with art and collecting, founding what became the Ambras Collection, but his Alsatian coinage was purely fiscal in purpose, financing a territory perpetually squeezed between French ambitions to the west and Swiss cantonal pressures to the south.
KLEM 161–170 spans a decade of production with multiple die combinations across the range.