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6 Kreuzers / Sechser - Ferdinand I Hall

Issuer County of Tyrol (Austrian States)
Year 1556
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 1556
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Ferdinand I had governed Tyrol as Archduke since 1522 before inheriting the imperial title in 1556 — the same year this piece was struck at Hall, the dominant mint of the Tyrolean monetary system. The Hall mint had operated continuously since the 1470s and was central to Ferdinand's broader effort to regularize coinage across his territories following decades of fragmented regional issues.

The six kreuzer denomination, known colloquially as the Sechser, emerged as a practical transaction coin bridging the gap between small copper and the larger Guldengroschen. MT#131 places this among the issues of his consolidated imperial period rather than the earlier Archduke series.

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