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2 Kreuzers - Maximilian II Prague
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1565-1571 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field within a beaded inner circle, with an orb on its breast bearing the denomination numeral. The encircling Latin legend commences at 1 o'clock and abbreviates the archducal and ducal titles of Maximilian II. A heraldic shield appears at the bottom of the coin, with the Prague mint mark positioned at 11 o'clock. The overall design is typical of the Habsburg imperial coinage of the mid-sixteenth century, executed in the hammered technique. |
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Maximilian II's Bohemian kreuzers of this period were struck against a backdrop of persistent tension between the Habsburg court and the Bohemian Estates over religious concessions — a negotiation Maximilian handled with calculated ambiguity, never fully committing to either Catholicism or Lutheranism. Prague's mint output during these years was substantial, feeding demand across a region where small silver coinage was chronically short.
The Diet reference places this squarely within Franz von Schroetter and related central European cataloguing traditions, though attribution of minor Bohemian silver from this decade can be complicated by overlapping Prague and Kuttenberg production.