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| Issuer | Sprinzenstein, Counts of |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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The Counts of Sprinzenstein were an obscure Upper Austrian noble house whose minting rights — a jealously retained privilege of the Holy Roman Empire's lesser nobility — produced only a handful of documented thaler types. Johann Ehrenreich von Sprinzenstein exercised those rights in 1717, a period when Habsburg consolidation was actively eroding the practical autonomy of precisely such families. The rarity of surviving examples reflects a genuinely limited issue, not simply attrition.