1 Thaler - Johann Franz

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.