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1 Thaler - Leopold V 'with coat'
| Issuer | Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1627 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered coat of arms of the House of Habsburg-Austria, featuring the arms of Austria, Burgundy, Styria, Tyrol, and other hereditary territories arranged within an ornate cartouche with scrollwork mantling. The shield is surmounted by an archducal crown. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device between a beaded inner border and a toothed outer rim, reading: SAC:CÆS:MA:ANTER:PROVINC.PLEN:GVB:, abbreviating Leopold's titles as Plenipotentiary Governor of the Austrian provinces under the Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| Mintage | 1627 - (fr) buste large (KM 267.3) - 1627 - (fr) buste normal - |
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Leopold V ruled Upper Alsace as Archduke from 1619 until his death in 1632, a tenure almost entirely consumed by the Thirty Years' War raging across the surrounding territories. The "with coat" designation distinguishes this die variety from companion issues of the same year, referring to a specific armorial treatment that differentiates KM#267.2 from KM#267.3 — two dies documented within the same emission, a not uncommon occurrence at the Ensisheim mint where production standards could shift between obverse pairs.
Ensisheim, the administrative seat of Further Austria in this period, operated under considerable Habsburg pressure to fund military expenditure throughout the 1620s.