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10 Kreuzers - Ferdinand II of Tyrol Mühlau
| Issuer | Tyrol, County of |
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| Year | 1569 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the combined arms of the Habsburg territories: the Hungarian stripes, the Bohemian lion, the Austrian fess, and the Tyrolean eagle among other quarterings, all arranged within a complex multi-field escutcheon. The date 1569 appears in the upper field flanking the shield. A beaded inner border surrounds the composition, with the circumferential Latin legend reading the ruler's titles as Duke of Burgundy and Count of Tyrol. The arms are rendered with fine engraving detail consistent with the high-quality die work associated with the Mühlau Mint. |
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Ferdinand II of Tyrol struck these 10 Kreuzer pieces at the Mühlau mint, located just outside Innsbruck, which he had established in 1567 to service his personal territorial finances independently of Habsburg imperial minting operations. Ferdinand was an enthusiastic and interventionist patron of his own coinage — the Mühlau facility produced an unusually diverse range of denominations during his tenure, reflecting his political ambition to assert Tyrolean autonomy within the broader Habsburg structure.
MT#194 is among the more specifically documented varieties of this type, and the .930 fine silver specification is notably high for subsidiary coinage of this denomination in the period.