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3 Kreuzers - Leopold V
| Issuer | Tyrol, County of |
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| Year | 1619-1625 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Archduke Leopold V of Habsburg, Governor of Tyrol, facing right, rendered in Renaissance style with fine drapery detail. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, commencing at 12 o'clock. Two legend variants are documented: the first reads LEOPOLDVS D G AR AVSTR and the second LEOPOLDVS D G ARC AVST, both serving as abbreviated proclamations of his title by the Grace of God. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leopold V ruled Tyrol as a separate Habsburg appanage from 1619, the same year he resigned his ecclesiastical offices — he had been Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg — to marry Claudia de' Medici and produce an heir. The 3 Kreuzer was the workhorse small silver of the Tirolean economy during this period, circulating heavily across the Alpine passes where it served toll and trade functions daily. These pieces wore fast.
MT#448 and 449 represent distinct die varieties documented by Egg and Moser in their Tiroler Münzkabinett corpus.