1 Thaler - Ferdinand III Graz

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.