6 Kreuzers Sechser - Sigismund

Sigismund of Tyrol — "the Rich" — was one of the first rulers anywhere to strike large silver coins in quantity, his Guldengroschen of 1486 marking a genuine turning point in European monetary history. The 6 Kreuzer Sechser belongs to the same program of ambitious silver coinage made possible by the Schwaz mines in the Inn Valley, which by the 1480s were producing silver on a scale that no other source in Europe could match. Sigismund essentially had more metal than precedent told him what to do with.

He abdicated in favor of Maximilian I in 1490, ending this series abruptly.