Thaler - Matthias II

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.