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Their fortune, founded on the control of Spanish mercury production and the sale of silver and copper mined in Tyrol and Hungary, began to grow in 1495. They were worth 6 million gulden by 1546 and financed the Habsburg emperor, but a 1550 attempt to monopolize Bohemian tin production by Anton resulted in the loss of the wealth amassed by ... ................
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