Weissgroschen - Maximilian II Prague

Maximilian II ruled Bohemia as an unusually tolerant Habsburg, navigating a kingdom that was majority Protestant while nominally Catholic — a balancing act that shaped his reign far more than his coinage does. The Prague mint operated under considerable administrative pressure during the 1570s as silver from Bohemian mines competed with the flood of American bullion beginning to distort European monetary values.

MB#204 places this among a well-documented sequence, but individual die marriages within the 1573–1578 run remain inconsistently catalogued.