2 Thalers - Ferdinand II of Tyrol

Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, died in 1595, making this a terminal issue struck in the final year of his rule over Further Austria — the scattered Habsburg territories west of the Tyrol that included the Landgraviate of Upper Alsace. The double thaler format was never intended for everyday commerce; these were prestige pieces, struck for presentation and diplomatic exchange at a court that Ferdinand had made one of the most culturally active in the Habsburg orbit.

The Dav EC I reference places this firmly within the broader corpus of Early Contemporary issues, a classification that reflects the transitional minting practices of the period. Ferdinand's Further Austrian mint output is notably thin for double thalers, which accounts for the tight cluster of catalog references all pointing to effectively the same small emission.