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10 Ducats - Ferdinand III Graz
| Issuer | Habsburg Mint, Graz |
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| Year | 1648 |
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| Weight | 34.81 g |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINAND III D G ROM IMP S A G H B REX |
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| Mintage | 1648 |
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1648 is not an incidental date. The Peace of Westphalia, signed that October, ended the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that had ravaged Central Europe since 1618 and strained Habsburg finances to their limit. Large gold multiples like this ten-ducat piece were not struck for commerce; they functioned as presentation pieces, diplomatic gifts, and calculated displays of dynastic authority at precisely the moment Ferdinand III was negotiating the terms of his empire's survival.
The Graz mint served Inner Austria specifically, distinct from the Vienna and Prague operations. Her#26 places this among the rarer Herinek-catalogued Graz multiples from Ferdinand's reign.