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1/2 Kreuzer - Anthony III
| Issuer | Montfort-Peggau, County of |
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| Year | 1732 |
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| Value | 1/2 Kreuzer (1⁄180) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1732 L W Y L M |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Montfort-Peggau was among the smallest and most obscure of the Austrian imperial fiefs still exercising minting rights in the eighteenth century, and by 1732 that privilege was already an anachronism under sustained pressure from Vienna. Anton III struck small billon issues like this half kreuzer largely as an assertion of jurisdictional standing rather than any genuine monetary need — the county's actual economic weight was negligible. The Holy Roman Empire's monetary ordinances had been tightening for decades, and independent county mints of this scale were effectively extinct within a generation.