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1 Thaler - Zsigmond Báthori
| Issuer | Transylvania, Principality of |
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| Year | 1593-1595 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (Tallér) |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Zsigmond Báthori facing right, wearing an elaborately articulated cuirass with ruff collar and pauldrons, rendered in fine detail characteristic of late Renaissance die-engraving. The effigy occupies the majority of the coin's field, with the prince's facial features depicted in sharp relief. A circular beaded inner border frames the design. The surrounding legend reads BATHORI SIGISMVNDVS, separated by small cross or star stops. |
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| Obverse lettering | ⁕ BATHORI ⁕ SIGISMVNDVS ⁕ |
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Zsigmond Báthori's thaler issues of this period fall squarely within his most volatile years as Prince of Transylvania — a time when he was simultaneously negotiating the Holy League alliance against the Ottomans, abdicating and reclaiming his throne multiple times, and executing dozens of pro-Ottoman nobles in 1594 without trial. The coins were struck to fund a war he believed in with an intensity that repeatedly destabilized his own court.
Resch 131 is well-documented in the specialist literature but genuinely scarce in commerce, appearing far less frequently than the later thaler types of his reign.