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Thaler - Matthias II
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1613-1616 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1613 K-B - - 1614 K-B - - 1615 K-B - - 1616 K-B - - |
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Matthias II secured the Hungarian throne in 1608 through a revolt against his own brother Rudolf II, forcing Rudolf to cede Hungary, Austria, and Moravia before eventually surrendering the imperial crown in 1612. These thalers were struck during a period when Matthias was simultaneously managing Ottoman tributary obligations on Hungary's southern frontier and suppressing Protestant unrest — the same tensions that would detonate into the Thirty Years' War two years after this series ended.
The ÉH#844 attribution places this squarely within the Kremnitz mint's output, which dominated Hungarian silver coinage throughout the early seventeenth century.