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| Uitgever | Principality of Transylvania |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1592 |
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| Oriëntatie | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Central shield bearing the Báthori family arms — three wolf's teeth arranged in horizontal bands — surmounted by a princely crown. Two male supporters, rendered as classical figures, flank the escutcheon on either side, each grasping the shield. The composition is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with the circumferential Latin legend reading PRINCEPS • TRANSSILVANIA • 1•5•9•Z• (the date 1592 interspersed within the legend). The heraldic design reflects the late Renaissance decorative conventions prevalent in Transylvanian coinage of the late sixteenth century. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | PRINCEPS • TRANSSILVANIA • 1•5•9•Z• |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Zsigmond Báthori's early thalers were struck at a moment of acute political calculation. Appointed Prince of Transylvania at age nine in 1581 under heavy Habsburg influence, he spent his reign oscillating between Ottoman suzerainty and alliance with Rudolf II — a vacillation that would eventually cost him the throne three separate times. The 1592 issue predates his formal anti-Ottoman turn by two years, placing it in the tense interval when Transylvania nominally maintained its tributary relationship with the Porte while Zsigmond quietly negotiated otherwise.
Davenport's EC I reference group covers early central European thalers with sometimes sparse die documentation; individual die marriages for this type remain incompletely catalogued.