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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II of Tyrol

Issuer Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of
Year 1584-1595
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Reference(s) KLEM#161-170
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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.

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