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10 Kreuzers - Ferdinand I Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Duchy of Carinthia (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1562 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Half-length armored effigy of Emperor Ferdinand I facing right, wearing a crown and full plate armor, holding a scepter in his right hand and an orb surmounted by a cross in his left. The figure is rendered in bold relief within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads +FERDI D G RO IM S AVG GER HVN BO REX, distributed around the periphery in Latin capital letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | +FERDI D G RO IM S AVG GER HVN BO REX |
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Ferdinand I — Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria — authorized expanded kreuzer production across his hereditary lands during the 1550s and 1560s partly to address chronic small-denomination shortages that plagued commerce in the Alpine territories. Klagenfurt had only recently been established as the permanent capital of Carinthia in 1518, and its mint was relatively young by Habsburg standards. The Markl reference places this piece within a tightly catalogued series, but survivors in any grade are encountered infrequently, the mountain trade circuits that consumed these coins doing their work thoroughly.