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Thaler - Rudolf
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1598-1599 |
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| Reference(s) | ÉH#795, H#1037, H#1038 |
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| Obverse lettering | RVDOL · II · D · G · ROM · IM : · S · AVG · GER · HVN · B · REX (Translation: Rudolphus II. dei gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Germaniae Hungariae Bohemiae Rex - Rudolf II, by the grace of God, Emperor of the Romans, forever Monarch, King of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rudolf II's Hungarian thalers of 1598–99 were struck at Kremnica (Körmöcbánya) at a moment of acute military pressure — the Long Turkish War, which had reopened in 1593, was grinding through its most destructive phase, and Habsburg fiscal demands on the Hungarian mint were correspondingly intense. Kremnica was the single most productive silver mint in royal Hungary at this period, its output underwriting mercenary forces fighting along the Ottoman frontier.
H#1037 and H#1038 represent dated variants across the two-year span; minor die differences between them are documented in Huszár's corpus.