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2 Thalers - Ferdinand II of Tyrol
| Issuer | Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1594-1595 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINAND D G ARCHID AVSTRIÆ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, died in January 1595, making this a terminal issue of his rule over Further Austria — the scattered Habsburg territories west of the Tyrol that included Upper Alsace. The Landgraviate's mint at Ensisheim produced double thalers under his authority in the final years of his life, a period when Ferdinand was more occupied with his art collections at Ambras Castle than with governance. He had famously married Philippine Welser, a merchant's daughter, in a morganatic union that scandalized the Habsburg court for decades.
The Davenport reference places this within the German Talers series, and the narrow 1594–1595 window reflects the coin's direct tie to the last year of his reign.