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2 Thalers - Ferdinand II Posthumous, Hall
| Issuer | County of Tyrol (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1564-1604 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Armored half-length effigy of Archduke Ferdinand II facing right, depicted within a double inner circle, the crown of his head breaking the inner beaded border. He wears elaborately engraved plate armor adorned with arabesque ornamentation on the breastplate and holds a scepter in his right hand pointing toward the 'R' of AVSTRIAE, and a sword in his left. The encircling legend in Latin reads FERDINANDVS D G ARCHIDVX AVSTRIAE, rendered in Roman capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINANDVSDGARCHIDVXAVSTRIAE |
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Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, died in 1595, yet the Hall mint continued striking coins in his name for nearly a decade afterward. This posthumous production was not sentiment — it was monetary policy. Ferdinand's types had circulated widely and enjoyed strong commercial trust across the Alpine trade routes, and Tyrol's administrators saw no reason to disrupt that acceptance by introducing a new effigy mid-stream.
Hall's mint on the Inn River was among the most technically sophisticated in the Habsburg territories, having pioneered roller-press coinage decades earlier under the same Ferdinand.