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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II of Tyrol
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Upper Alsace (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1584-1595 |
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| Reference(s) | MT#577 , Vogelhuber#84/2 , E&L#22 |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned composite shield bearing a quartered coat of arms: first quarter Hungary, second quarter Bohemia, third quarter composite of Castile and Leon, fourth quarter composite of Austria and Burgundy, with an escutcheon of Upper Alsace superimposed overall. The shield is suspended from a U-shaped chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The peripheral Latin legend is interrupted at left by a small Habsburg shield and at right by the arms of Ferrette (Pfirt), serving as divisors within the legend. |
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| Mintage | ND (1584-1595) |
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Ferdinand II of Tyrol ruled Upper Alsace as part of his broader Habsburgs holdings from Innsbruck, and his Ensisheim mint — the principal striking facility for Further Austria in this period — produced thalers for regional trade circulation across the Rhine corridor. The Ensisheim operation was administratively subordinate to Tyrolean authority rather than to the main Habsburg mints, which accounts for the distinct reference lineage this type carries across Vogelhuber and Engel & Lehr alongside the mainstream Moser-Tursky corpus.
Ferdinand died in 1595 without legitimate male heirs from his morganatic marriage to Philippine Welser, triggering the reversion of Further Austria to Emperor Rudolf II.