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| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1637-1657 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ARCHI AVS ET CARINTH D BVR date ou ... D B ET |
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Ferdinand III's three-kreuzer pieces were struck at the St. Veit mint in Carinthia, one of the oldest minting operations in Habsburg territory — active since the medieval period and responsible for much of the silver coinage circulating through the southeastern Alpine regions. The reign spanned the final decade of the Thirty Years' War and its immediate aftermath, a period when the Habsburg mints were under intense pressure to produce small-denomination silver for armies, occupation costs, and the ruinously expensive diplomacy that eventually produced the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Her#718-736 encompasses a wide range of die variants across the production years, reflecting the extended run and multiple working dies in rotation at St. Veit.