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½ Kreuzer - Charles VI Prague
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1716-1717 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1520-1754) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely blank, this being a uniface issue with no design, legend, or inscription of any kind struck on the reverse die. The flat, featureless field bears only the natural texture and wear of the billon flan, consistent with standard practice for small-denomination Bohemian half-kreuzer coinage of this period. |
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Charles VI spent much of his reign asserting authority over Bohemia through bureaucratic and monetary standardization, but these tiny billon fractions were a concession to local small-change demand that the wider Habsburg monetary system struggled to accommodate. Prague mint output for this denomination was erratic across the period, reflecting both silver supply difficulties and the low profitability of striking coins worth fractions of a kreuzer.
The Herinek reference range 1657–1740 groups this type across a broad span of Habsburg issues, but the 1716–1717 window falls shortly after the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, when Charles was consolidating dynastic succession arrangements that would consume imperial attention for decades.