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1 Thaler - Johann Franz
| Issuer | Counts of Trautson (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1638-1639 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | Central quartered coat of arms of the Trautson family, surmounted by a crowned double-headed Imperial eagle with wings displayed, the whole set within a flat field. The heraldic shield displays the combined arms of the Trautson lordships, supported by foliate ornamental elements. A beaded inner circle borders the design, with the Latin legend around the periphery reading L B IN SPRECHEN ET SCHROVENST 1639 SVB VMBRA ALARVM TVARVM, the date 1639 appearing prominently in the upper portion of the legend. The motto translates as 'Under the shadow of your wings,' a devotional phrase referencing Psalm 17. |
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| Reverse lettering | L B IN SPRECHEN ET SCHROVENST 1639 SVB VMBRA ALARVM TVARVM (Translation: ... free Baron in Sprechenstein and Schroffenstein. Under the shadows of your wings.) |
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The Trautson family rose to prominence under the Habsburgs as hereditary imperial marshals, a title that carried the right to issue coinage — a privilege increasingly curtailed by Vienna throughout the seventeenth century. Johann Franz, Count Trautson, struck these thalers during a narrow two-year window that coincided with the closing phase of the Thirty Years' War, when silver coin of any reliable authority was scarce across the Austrian hereditary lands. The II#3429 reference places this within Iriarte's corpus of Austrian estates coinage, a notoriously difficult series to attribute cleanly due to overlapping die use among related mints.