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2 Thalers - Leopold I Hall
| Issuer | Hall Mint (Münzstätte Hall in Tirol) |
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| Year | 1686-1696 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Tyrolean eagle displayed at centre, depicted with finely engraved individual feathers, spread wings, and a crowned head facing left, rendered in the refined late 17th-century style characteristic of the Hall Mint. The eagle's breast is covered with closely detailed plumage, and the talons grip scrolling foliate ornaments at the base of the design. A continuous inner laurel wreath border surrounds the central motif, with the circumferential Latin legend divided around the eagle reading: ARCHIDVX AVST DVX BV COM TYROLIS. |
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Hall in Tirol was one of the most technically capable mints in the Habsburg territories, and the double thaler format it produced under Leopold I during the 1680s and 1690s reflects the period when Vienna was simultaneously managing the costs of the Great Turkish War — the campaign that culminated in the relief of Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent push deep into Ottoman-held Hungary. Large silver was being struck partly to fund ongoing military operations financed through Tyrolean mining revenues, which by the late seventeenth century were in structural decline but still significant.
Davenport's EC II classification places this squarely among the major German multiple thalers of the period — not an honorary or presentation piece, but a working denomination in high-value transactions.