Diversity in Numismatics
Cayman Islands


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Set Details
Coin Description:
Grade: NGC XF 45
Owner: RAM-VT
 
Set Category: Other (Diverse collecting in the style of Garrett while on a very limited budget)
Set Name: Diversity in Numismatics
Slot Name: Cayman Islands
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Austria Ferdinand I, 1521 - 1564 Silver Groschen – 1549 XF-45 Silver Groschen Census - NGC does not provide census info on coins from this period :>( Obv. Crowned bust of Ferdinand right, with FERDINAN D G RO VNG BO REX around Rev. Austrian eagle, with INF HI ARCHD AVST 1548 around Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was a Central European monarch from the House of Habsburg. He was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558, king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526, king of Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, and formally king of Serbia, Galicia (in Eastern Europe) and Lodomeria, etc. He ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs most of his public life, at the behest of his elder brother Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. The key events during his reign were the contest with the Ottoman Empire, whose great advance into Central Europe began in the 1520s, and the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in several wars of religion. Ferdinand's motto was Fiat justitia et pereat mundus: "Let justice be done, though the world perish". Ferdinand was born in Alcalá de Henares, 40 km from Madrid, the son of the future Queen of Castile Infanta Joanna ("Joanna the Mad") and Habsburg Archduke Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy and future King of Castile, who was heir to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. Ferdinand shared his birthday with his maternal grandfather Ferdinand II of Aragon. Charles entrusted Ferdinand with the government of the Austrian hereditary lands, roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia. Ferdinand was Archduke of Austria from 1521 to 1564. After the death of his brother–in–law Louis II, Ferdinand ruled as King of Bohemia and Hungary (1526–1564). Ferdinand also served as his brother's deputy in the Holy Roman Empire during his brother's many absences, and in 1531 was elected King of the Romans, making him Charles's designated heir in the Empire. When Charles retired in 1556, Ferdinand became his de facto successor as Holy Roman Emperor, and de jure in 1558, while Spain, the Spanish Empire, Naples, Sicily, Milan, the Netherlands, and Franche-Comté went to Philip, son of Charles. My cost $81

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