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1 Thaler - Leopold I St Veit
| Issuer | Imperial Mint, St. Veit |
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| Year | 1660-1670 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1176, Her#621-622, Dav EC II#3236 |
| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Leopold I facing right, wearing a laurel wreath and elaborately decorated armour with a lace cravat. The emperor's distinctive features, including his prominent jaw and long flowing hair, are rendered in fine relief in the baroque style. A beaded inner border frames the design. The Latin legend reads LEOPOLDVS D G ROM IMP S A G H ET B REX, distributed around the periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | LEOPOLDVS D G ROM IM S A G H E B REX |
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St. Veit am Pflaum — now Rijeka, Croatia — operated as an Imperial mint intermittently through the seventeenth century, and its output is consistently underrepresented in major collections. Leopold I's early reign saw Thalers struck there during the protracted aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, when Habsburg finances were under severe strain from Ottoman pressure in the east and ongoing costs of garrisoning the Military Frontier. The St. Veit facility was never a high-volume operation, which accounts for the relative difficulty of locating well-attributed examples today.
Davenport's EC II attribution places this squarely within the broader Austrian Thaler sequence, but Herinek's tighter die distinctions at 621–622 separate what are otherwise superficially similar issues.