2 Thalers - Ferdinand II of Tyrol Posthumous, Hall

Ferdinand II of Tyrol died in 1595, and these posthumous strikes were authorized by his successor, Archduke Maximilian III, who governed the Further Austrian territories and retained control of the Hall mint. Posthumous coinages of this kind were not purely commemorative — they circulated freely and served ongoing commercial demand in the Alpine trade networks, where the Ferdinand thaler series had built deep recognition over decades of use.

The Hall mint, on the Inn River, had been an early adopter of the mill and screw press, giving its output a consistency that hand-struck rivals from the same period rarely matched.