1 Thaler - Matthias II Kuttenberg

Matthias II became King of Bohemia in 1611 only after forcing his brother Rudolf II to abdicate — a humiliation engineered partly by Bohemian Protestant estates who believed Matthias would be more accommodating to their religious demands. He wasn't, and the tensions his reign failed to resolve would detonate into the Thirty Years' War within months of his death in 1619. The Kuttenberg mint, one of Bohemia's oldest silver-producing facilities drawing on the Kutná Hora mining district, struck these thalers throughout his reign against that deteriorating political backdrop.

Davenport's EC II#3071 classification covers the full 1613–1619 span without distinguishing annual die varieties, though date-specific examples do exist and carry different collector premiums depending on proximity to the 1618 Defenestration of Prague.