30 Kreuzers / 1/2 Guldenthaler - Ferdinand II Hall

Ferdinand II governed Tyrol as a separate holding from the main Habsburg inheritance, which gave Hall's mint unusual autonomy in the 1560s. The 30 Kreuzer denomination — sometimes called the halber Guldentaler — emerged precisely because the full Guldentaler of 60 Kreuzer was too large for everyday transactions, yet smaller silver was too inconvenient for the regional trade flowing through the Inn valley. Hall itself had been one of the most productive mints in the Habsburg lands since the previous century, drawing on Tyrolean silver from mines at Schwaz that were, by the 1560s, already past their peak output.

The MT#170var designation signals a die variant not fully catalogued in the standard Moser-Tursky sequence — worth documenting carefully before attribution firms up.