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1 Thaler - Ferdinand III Glatz
| Issuer | Glatz Mint (Münzstätte Glatz) |
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| Year | 1627 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Ferdinand III facing right, bare-headed with a prominent thick ruffled collar, set within a beaded inner circle. The royal title appears as a circumscribed Latin legend around the inner circle border. A mint mark is present at the bottom of the field. |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned ornate oval cartouche bearing the composite Habsburg coat of arms occupies the center of the field, with a smaller inescutcheon at its center displaying the quartered arms of Austria and Burgundy. The Chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece is draped around the shield. A circumscribed Latin legend runs around the perimeter, concluding with the date 1627. |
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Glatz — today Kłodzko in southwestern Poland — operated its mint under extraordinary circumstances. Ferdinand III held the county as a hereditary possession of the Habsburg crown, but 1627 fell in the thick of the Thirty Years' War, the year Ferdinand II's Edict of Restitution was being drafted and Protestant resistance in Bohemia had just been crushed at White Mountain. Coinage from the Glatz mint in this period was as much a political statement of restored Catholic Habsburg control as it was a monetary instrument.
The Davenport EC II reference places this squarely within the broader Emergency Coinage typology for the region — issues produced under conditions where normal imperial mint infrastructure was disrupted by wartime logistics.