Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Thaler - Ferdinand III Vienna
| Issuer | Holy Roman Empire - Habsburg Mint Vienna |
|---|---|
| Year | 1648-1649 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed within a beaded inner circle, with a small orb positioned between the two crowns above the eagle's heads. The breast of the eagle bears a large composite armorial shield representing the Habsburg dynastic territories, with a small escutcheon of Austria proper (barry of silver and gules) placed within the legend at the base. The regnal date is incorporated into the encircling Latin legend, which continues from the obverse title. The design follows the standard imperial eagle type employed consistently on Habsburg thalers of the mid-17th century. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
1648 marks the Peace of Westphalia, which ended thirty years of war that had devastated Habsburg finances and disrupted minting across the empire. Ferdinand III signed the treaties at Osnabrück and Münster in October of that year, and the Vienna mint was among the facilities scrambling to normalize silver output after decades of wartime debasement and the notorious Kipper und Wipper crisis of the early 1620s, when currency manipulation had nearly collapsed the imperial monetary system entirely.
Davenport's European Crown reference distinguishes multiple die marriages across this two-year span, catalogued separately by Herinek as 383 and 385.