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1 Thaler - II György Rákóczi
| Issuer | Transylvania, Principality of |
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| Year | 1649 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1526-1780) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned quartered coat of arms of Transylvania surmounted by a royal crown, displaying the eagle of Wallachia, the sun and moon of Transylvania, the seven towers of the Saxon cities, and the Rákóczi family arms, flanked by the mint mark letters N and B. The date 1649 appears at the top of the field. The surrounding legend reads: PAR·REG·HUN·D·MEISIC·COMES. A beaded inner border frames the entire design. |
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György Rákóczi II inherited the Transylvanian throne from his father in 1648, but his reign would end in catastrophe — a disastrous 1657 Polish campaign undertaken without Ottoman approval cost him the principality's autonomy and ultimately his life, killed by Ottoman-backed forces at Gyalu in 1660. This thaler predates that collapse by nearly a decade, struck when Transylvania still functioned as a stable, prosperous buffer state navigating carefully between Habsburg and Ottoman pressure.
The H#559c reference places this within Huszár's classification of the type, distinguishing it among several die variants documented for the 1649 emission.