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8 Ducats - Ferdinand II St Veit
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1632 |
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| Weight | 28 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Saint Veit (Sankt Veit) Mint |
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Ferdinand II spent much of his reign funding the Thirty Years' War, and large gold multiples like this eight-ducat piece were struck less for circulation than for diplomatic gifting and military payment at the command level. The St. Veit mint in Carinthia — one of the older Habsburg minting centers — was producing these heavy presentation pieces through the early 1630s as the war ground into its second decade and the imperial treasury was under sustained pressure.
Survivors in any condition are scarce. Most were melted, spent as bullion, or lost to the general destruction that consumed so much of Central Europe before 1648.