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3 Kreuzers - Ferdinand III St Veit
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1637-1657 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#835, Her#718-736 |
| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Ferdinand III facing right, enclosed within a beaded or linear inner circle. The numeral '3' indicating the denomination appears in a small cartouche or frame at the base of the portrait, dividing the surrounding legend. The legend, beginning at 12 o'clock, reads FERDI III D G R I S A G H ET B REX, with the 'ET' ligature prominent. The portrait conveys the standard imperial effigy style characteristic of mid-17th-century Habsburg coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.