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1/4 Ducat - Joseph I Vienna
| Issuer | Habsburg Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 1707 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned imperial double-headed eagle displayed in the field, with the Austrian arms (a fess) on its breast shield. The mintmaster's initials appear below the eagle's tail feathers. The surrounding Latin legend, divided by the eagle, reads ARCHID AVST DVX BVR CO TYR followed by the date, with a beaded inner circle and milled border. |
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| Mintage | 1707 |
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Joseph I's reign saw Austria locked in the War of the Spanish Succession, and the Vienna mint was under considerable financial strain supplying gold for military payments and diplomatic subsidy chains running to allied powers in the west. Quarter ducats of this period served as convenient fractional currency for exactly those kinds of small-denomination gold transactions. Joseph died in 1711 from smallpox at 32, making his coinage span just six years — Vienna issues from 1707 specifically fall near the midpoint of that compressed window.