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3 Kreuzers - Charles II Francis of Austria
| Issuer | Styria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1587 |
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| Weight | 2.4 g |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS D (3) G ARCHIDVX |
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| Reverse lettering | AVSTRI DVX BVR STYRI Z date |
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Charles II ruled Inner Austria — the hereditary lands of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola — as a largely separate domain from the main Habsburg line in Vienna, and his Graz mint operated with considerable autonomy as a result. The 1587 date falls within the final years of his reign; he died in 1590, leaving his son Ferdinand (later Emperor Ferdinand II) to be raised by Bavarian Jesuits, a detail that would shape the entire course of the Counter-Reformation in central Europe.
The Graz mint's small-denomination silver output from this decade is frequently encountered with weak peripheral detail owing to the shallow, well-worn dies the mint habitually ran past their useful life.