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1/2 Liard - Joseph II
| Issuer | Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1783-1789 |
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| Value | 1/2 Liard (1⁄160) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Joseph II's copper coinage for Luxembourg was a direct consequence of his sweeping administrative reforms, which reorganized the Austrian Netherlands into a single fiscal zone and standardized petty denominations across territories that had previously struck under their own fragmented arrangements. The half liard sat at the absolute bottom of the monetary hierarchy — a denomination so marginal that its production cost was barely justified by its face value in copper.
Joseph's broader reforms provoked the Brabant Revolution of 1789, which effectively ended Habsburg administrative control of the Low Countries before the series ran its full course.