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2 Thalers - Leopold V
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Upper Alsace (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1627-1630 |
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| Value | 2 Thalers |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | LEOPOLDVS.D.G:ARCHIDVX.AVS.TRIÆ. |
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Leopold V ruled Upper Alsace as Archduke from 1619 until his death in 1632, a period bracketed by the opening catastrophe of the Thirty Years' War. The conflict disrupted silver supply chains across the Habsburg lands, making sustained multi-thaler production genuinely difficult. That this issue spans four years of output rather than a single campaign likely reflects interrupted die use rather than continuous minting.
The Davenport EC II reference places it firmly within the emergency-adjacent coinage of the period — large silver at this weight was increasingly hoarded as the war ground on.