73, Lot: 129. Estimate $100. Sold for $242. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA. Rudolf II as Holy Roman Emperor. 1576-1612. AR Thaler (40mm, 28.56 gm). Dated 1610. Laureate and armored bust right / Crowned imperial coat-of-arms. Davenport 3007A; KM 606.4. VF. 

From the Charles E. Weber Collection.

Rudolf's ill health and unpopularity prevented him from restraining the religious dissensions that eventually led to the Thirty Years' War (1618­48).