Hungary, Transylvania, Gabriel (Gábor) Bethlen, thaler 1621, Kremnica (Körmöcbánya) mint.
Cuirass ornaments: pearls in one row, cross rosettes alternating with double rivets in the other.
Silver, 27.9 g, 43.9 mm. Luchian, Buzdugan and Oprescu 1298 (R); Repertorium 21.1.11.4.19/9.
Grade: VF, slightly worn on bulges, the background is smoothed (tooled), but very nice portrait. Traces of die cracks on the reverse edge.
Beautiful and impressive thalers of Gabriel Bethlen, one of the most outstanding participants of the Thirty Years' War, being among others the Duke of Opole-Racibórz, were mainly used to pay troops.
