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1 Thaler - Ferdinand III Graz
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire |
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| Year | 1638 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and armored bust of Emperor Ferdinand III facing right, with flowing hair and a short beard, wearing an elaborately decorated cuirass with a ruffled collar, presented in high-relief baroque style. The effigy occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle formed by a laurel wreath border. The date 1638 appears in the exergue below the bust, divided by the lower segment of the wreath. The circumferential legend in Latin runs along the outer rim, reading the emperor's full titulature. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Ferdinand III issued thalers from the Graz mint throughout the 1630s while simultaneously directing the final brutal phase of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict draining imperial finances so severely that coinage quality and consistency fluctuated mint by mint. Graz, as the capital of Inner Austria, maintained its own mint with distinct die cutting traditions separating its output from Vienna and Prague issues of the same reign.
Davenport's EC II classification places this squarely among the better-documented Inner Austrian series. Herinek 394 distinguishes this die pairing from several closely related Graz varieties of the same year.