3 Kreuzers - Matthias I Vienna

Matthias I spent most of his reign managing the consequences of a succession crisis he had engineered himself — having forced his brother Rudolf II to cede Hungary, Austria, and Moravia in 1608, then Bohemia in 1611. By 1614 his treasury was perpetually strained by ongoing Ottoman pressure on the Hungarian frontier and the early rumblings of confessional conflict that would erupt into the Thirty Years' War just months after his death in 1619. Small silver kreuzers from this window circulated hard across a region in near-constant fiscal stress.