2 Thaler - Ferdinand III St Veit

Ferdinand III struck these heavy double thalers at Sankt Veit — the ancient Carinthian mint whose rights dated to the medieval duchy — during the years immediately following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The empire had just emerged from thirty years of war that had decimated Central European silver circulation, and the Habsburg mints were under pressure to reassert monetary authority across fragmented territories still rebuilding their economies.

Sankt Veit's output was dwarfed by the great Bohemian and Tyrolean mints, which makes surviving examples from this particular facility and reign combination genuinely scarce.