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3 Kreuzers - Groschen - Ferdinand III Olomouc
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1637-1641 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | FERD.III.D:G.(3).R.I S.A.G.R.B.REX |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand III inherited the Bohemian throne in 1637 while the Thirty Years' War ground through its final decade, and these small silver issues were struck at Olomouc — a Moravian mint city that had served as a Habsburg administrative refuge when Prague fell under pressure earlier in the conflict. The Olomouc mint operated under tight imperial oversight during this period, its output partly funding continued campaigning ahead of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
The .640 fineness reflects the debased standards that had plagued Central European silver coinage since the Kipper- und Wipperzeit crisis of the early 1620s, when systematic debasement by competing states had eroded public trust in small denomination silver across the region.