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1 Thaler - Ferdinand II Vienna
| Issuer | Imperial Austrian Mint (Vienna) |
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| Year | 1624 |
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| Weight | 28.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, armored bust of Emperor Ferdinand II facing right, the crown of the head breaking through the inner beaded circle into the legend. The bust is rendered in high relief with detailed armor and drapery. The mint mark appears in the lower portion of the legend. The Latin legend encircles the portrait within a continuous band. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand II's obsessive reconquest of Bohemia following the 1618 defenestration of Prague — and the crushing Catholic League victory at White Mountain in 1620 — provided the political will to reassert Habsburg monetary authority across the empire. Vienna thalers of this period were instruments of that reassertion as much as they were currency, circulating through territories that had only recently been brought back under imperial control by force.
Davenport's EC II listing places this among the earlier Vienna strikes of Ferdinand's long reign, before the minting reforms of the later 1620s tightened die standards.