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Thaler - Ferdinand I
| Issuer | Kingdom of Hungary |
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| Year | 1553 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINAND · D · G · ROM · HVN · BOE · DAL · C · REX ¤ (Translation: Ferdinandus Dei Gratia Romanorum Hungariae Bohemiae Dalmatiae Croatiae Rex - Ferdinánd, by the grace of God, King of the Romans, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia) |
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| Reverse lettering | INF · HISPA · ARCHIDV · AVSTRIE · DVX · BVR · 1553 · K B (Translation: Infans Hispaniae Archidux Austriae Dux Burgundiae - Crown Prince of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy) |
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Ferdinand I's claim to Hungary was violently contested from the moment he inherited it in 1526 — the same year Suleiman the Magnificent destroyed the Hungarian army at Mohács and killed the previous king, Louis II. For most of Ferdinand's reign, the Ottomans held Buda and a rival Hungarian king controlled Transylvania, leaving Ferdinand ruling a thin western strip of the kingdom from Pressburg. The thalers issued under his name were as much a political assertion as a coin.
By 1553, the Kremnitz mint — one of the few major minting facilities still in Habsburg hands — was the primary source of Hungarian silver coinage.