1/2 Thaler - Charles VI Kuttenberg

Charles VI spent much of his reign consumed by the Pragmatic Sanction — the legal instrument he hoped would secure Habsburg succession for his daughter Maria Theresa. Securing endorsement from Bohemian estates was a political priority, and the Kuttenberg mint, drawing on the silver of the Bohemian ore mountains, remained an active instrument of imperial legitimacy throughout this period.

Kuttenberg's mining output had been declining since the seventeenth century, and the mint's reduced throughput shows in the relative scarcity of this half thaler compared to Vienna issues of the same reign.