1716 Austrian Taler

[regandon]

Just got this NGC AU58 Taler.

[FilthyBroke]

He looks angry!   

Another nice one, Don!

[Zohar444]

Don - I believe I see an overdate 6/5 can you zoom in further to confirm?

[regandon]

He looks angry!   

Another nice one, Don!

I believe he is angry. He was to go to war with the Ottoman Turks in 1716. Not more than 3 years ago he was fighting the War of the Spanish Succession. Also the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a document which abolished male-only succession (hitherto effective in all the Habsburg realms) and declared his lands indivisible. The Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of his elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, in the succession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh terms: England demanded that Austria abolish its overseas trading company. In total, Great Britain, France, Saxony-Poland, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Venice, States of the Church, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Savoy-Sardinia, Bavaria, and the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire recognised the sanction. But,.. France, Spain, Saxony-Poland, Bavaria and Prussia later reneged.

[regandon]

Don - I believe I see an overdate 6/5 can you zoom in further to confirm?

Yes, there is a 5 under the 6. I'm going to try and get a good close up of the date. I'm going to resumit it to NGC to have the lable changed to state its an overdate.