(sold for $124.0)

1777, Austrian States, Windisch-Graetz, Joseph Nicholas. Rare Silver ½ Thaler Coin. VF-

Mint Year: 1777 Reference: KM-11 ($300 in F! / $650 in VF!) Condition: A well-worn  obverse, toned, tooled edge (probably removed from jewellery), otherwise VF-/VF+ Weight: 13.53gm Diameter: 34mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Draped bust of Joseph Louis Nicholas, Count of Windisch-Graetz right. Legend: IONS.NIC.S.R.I.IMMEDIATUS COM.AC DOM.A WINDISCHGRÄTZ.

Reverse: Three helmets ontop of coat-of-arms, supported by two standing animals, which stand on a garlanded base. Legend: SUPER STYR : STAB . PRAEFECTUS . HAEREDITARIUS . 1777 .

The House of Windisch-Graetz, also spelled Windisch-Grätz, is an Austrian aristocratic family, descending from Windischgraz in Lower Styria (present-day Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia). The noble dynasty serving the House of Habsburgachieved the rank of Freiherren in 1551, of Imperial Counts in 1682 and of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1804.

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Joseph Louis Nicholas, Count of Windisch-Graetz, Baron of Waldstein and Thal (6 December 1744 – 24 January 1802 in Štěkeň) was an Austrian nobleman, a member of the House of Windisch-Graetz, and was chamberlain to Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria. He was the second son of Leopold Carl Joseph of Windish-Graetz and his wife Maria Antonia Josepha of Khevenhüller.

On 12 May 1781, he purchased the lordships of Tachov, Ctěnice, and Štěkeň from Ernestine, the widow of Adam Philip Losy of Losinthal. Here he founded his extensive family archive. His descendants later move this archive to the former Kladruby monastery, which they had acquired after it had been secularized.

Joseph Nicholas married twice. His first wife was Maria Josepha Reinharda Raimunda Countess Erdödy (5 April 1748 – 10 April 1777).[1]

His second wife was Maria Leopoldine Franziska of Arenberg (31 July 1751 – 26 August 1812); he married her in Brussels on 30 August 1781. Their son Alfred (11 May 1787 in Brussels – 21 March 1862, Vienna) was raised to the rank of prince in 1804. Their daughter Sophie Luise married Prince Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.