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1 Thaler - Maximilian III Hall
| Issuer | Mint of Hall (Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1613 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Ornate quartered coat of arms of the Habsburg-Tyrol territories, surmounted by an imperial crown, displaying the arms of Austria, Burgundy, Styria, the Tyrol eagle, and other dynastic territories within a elaborately mantled shield. Decorative scrollwork and cartouches flank the shield on both sides. The surrounding Latin legend ET:CARN:MAG:PRVSS:AD COMES:HAB:ET:TIROL continues the titulature from the obverse, separated by pellets. The composition is enclosed within a rope-pattern inner circle and a beaded outer rim. |
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Hall in Tirol was one of the most productive silver minting centers in early modern Europe, fed directly by the rich ore deposits of the Schwaz mines upstream along the Inn River. By 1613, however, Schwaz output had declined sharply from its sixteenth-century peak, and the mint was working with increasingly consolidated silver supplies routed through Innsbruck. Maximilian III, as Archduke and regent of Tyrol, maintained Hall's mint privileges in part to fund his ongoing commitments against the Ottomans following years of border conflict in Hungary.
The .9375 fineness places this squarely within the established Tyrolean standard rather than the slightly debased issues some neighboring mints adopted under fiscal pressure during the same decade.