2 Kreuzers - Maximilian II Prague

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.