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Vierer - Rudolph II Hall
| Issuer | County of Tyrol (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1605 |
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| Value | 1 Vierer (1⁄300) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | COMITES TIROLI 1605 |
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Rudolph II's Tyrolean copper issues of this period reflect a deliberate administrative response to chronic small-change shortages in the Alpine mining regions, where silver was abundant in the ground but rarely available in small denominations for daily transactions. Hall's mint, already the dominant silver facility in the Habsburg territories, was pressed into copper production precisely because its workforce and infrastructure could absorb the additional demand without disrupting the Thaler output.
MT#347 is among the later-dated examples before copper coinage in Tyrol was curtailed under pressure from merchants who objected to its forced acceptance at face value.