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2 Pfennig - Ferdinand II Klagenfurt
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1619 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#251, Her#1547 |
| Obverse description | Central field displays a composite armorial design featuring three heraldic shields arranged in a triangular configuration: the imperial eagle of the Habsburg dynasty at the top, the shield of Carinthia at the lower left, and the ancient Burgundy device at the lower right. Between the shields, three fire steels are depicted, referencing the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Burgundian heritage of the Habsburg dynasty. The overall composition is rendered in the characteristic style of early seventeenth-century Central European hammered coinage. |
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| Mint | Klagenfurt Mint |
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Ferdinand II issued coinage from Klagenfurt as part of his consolidation of the Inner Austrian territories, a process inseparable from his aggressive campaign to roll back Protestantism in the hereditary lands — the same confessional politics that ignited the Thirty Years' War in 1618, the year before this coin was struck. The Klagenfurt mint served Carinthia specifically, distinguishing its output from the parallel issues at Graz and Laibach.
Billon issues of this denomination circulated hard in a period of monetary instability that would soon collapse into the Kipper und Wipper crisis of 1621–23, when systematic debasement across the German lands drove small coinage from circulation entirely.