1/2 Soldo - Leopoldo II

Gorizia passed to Habsburg control in 1500 and remained one of the smaller hereditary crown lands, retaining its own local coinage well into the late eighteenth century. By 1791, Leopold II had just succeeded Joseph II, inheriting an empire in fiscal and political disarray — the Belgian revolt, Hungarian unrest, and a costly Turkish war had drained the treasury. Small copper issues for peripheral territories like Gorizia were among the minor administrative details resolved before the Habsburgs consolidated and eventually eliminated regional coinages entirely in the rationalizations that followed.