1/2 Ducaton - Maria Theresia

The Austrian Netherlands ducaton series resumed under Maria Theresia following the disruption of the War of Austrian Succession, which had left Brussels and Antwerp mints effectively idle for much of the early 1740s. The half ducaton specifically was reintroduced to address a shortage of mid-denomination silver in a province where Spanish-tradition coinage still circulated alongside the new Habsburg issues. KM#7 was struck at both Brussels and Antwerp across this five-year window, and attributing individual pieces to a specific mint requires careful attention to mintmaster marks rather than any feature cataloged in standard metadata fields.