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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4550227, member: 102103&quot;]Day 78:&nbsp; Bohemia, 3 Kreuzer = 1 Groschen, 1645, Prague Mint, Ferdinand III</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin from the tail end of the Thirty Years&#039; War.&nbsp; The star over a crescent moon with</p><p>4 dashes (a hand?) indicates it was made at Prague Mint under Jakob W. Wolker.&nbsp; I </p><p>believe this was part of a collection of mostly Polish silver from the 1600s from which I picked up about 3 examples.&nbsp; They weren&#039;t fully attributed, and only one turned out to be from Poland proper (well, Poland-Lithuania).&nbsp; The other two were from Livonia and Bohemia (today&#039;s example).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ferdinand III was also Holy Roman Emperor, and he had numerous holdings--King</p><p>of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia, Archduke of Austria, etc.&nbsp; He was a Habsburg, but</p><p>Poland was under rule of the house of Vasa (of Swedish origin) during the 30 Years&#039;</p><p>War, under Sigismund (Zygmunt) III and later Ladislaus (Władysław) IV.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; FER III D G R (3) IMPERAS A</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; G H BOHEMIAE REX 1645</p><p>Something like &quot;Ferdinand III, by the Grace of God, Roman Emperor, Archduke of </p><p>Austria (GH = Großherzog) and King of Bohemia, 1645&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces85333.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces85333.html" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s</a> the example on Numista, which honestly looks pretty weakly struck.</p><p>I feel inordinate pride if my example looks better!&nbsp; I&#039;m mostly a low-grade coins guy.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126395[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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