Ferdinand III was Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary. He was born in July 1608 in Graz, as the second son of Ferdinand and Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria. After his father's death in 1625, he became the heir to the throne of Austria, and then of Hungary in 1637. He was very famous for his tolerant religious policy, according to which he allowed the practice of the Protestant religion in the country. In 1628, he married Maria Anna, a Spanish infant woman, with whom he had several children. Ferdinand received the Czech royal title in 1630 after killing the general Stephen Bocskai Kuruc, against whom he had previously fought. He was the leader of the Austrian troops during the Thirty Years' War. During the siege of Vienna in 1683, he owes his life to the help of the Polish king János Sobieski. He spent his last years in the 1650s completely blind, and finally died in Vienna in 1657.

III. During the period of Ferdinand (1637-1657), several types of coinage took place in Hungary, during his reign gold forints and silver thalers were minted, which represented the currency of the crown. The gold coins had a high gold content and were usually decorated with the symbol of the crown. The gold forints were minted in several different minting places, such as Kassa, Nagybánya, Selmecbánya and many other places.