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1 Thaler - Ferdinand III Vienna
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1651 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate composite arms displaying the dynastic and territorial escutcheons of the Habsburg monarchy, surmounted by a crowned imperial eagle. A shield of Tyrol is prominently placed above the central composition. Within the legend, between DVX and AVST, a mintmaster's mark W and a small shield appear; between SK and CC, a crowned shield combining the arms of Austria and ancient Burgundy is displayed. The surrounding legend abbreviates the full titles Archidux Austriae, Dux Burgundiae, Styriae, Karinthiae, Carniolae, Comes Tyrolis. |
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| Mintage | 1651 |
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Ferdinand III issued this thaler in the immediate aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which ended the Thirty Years' War and left the Habsburg treasury severely strained from three decades of near-continuous military expenditure. The Vienna mint was one of several imperial facilities working to restore confidence in silver coinage after a period badly disrupted by the Kipper und Wipper inflation crisis of the early 1620s, during which debased small coinage had flooded the empire and undermined public trust in Habsburg monetary output.
Dav EC II#3181 places this squarely within the broad thaler series that underpinned Habsburg trade across Central Europe and into the Levant — a circuit that would eventually be dominated by the later Maria Theresa issue. The 1651 Vienna pieces are not rare, but survivors in problem-free surfaces are scarcer than mintage assumptions suggest.