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1/4 Kreutzer - Maria Theresia
| Issuer | Burgau, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1772-1778 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The denomination and date are inscribed in three lines across the center of the field, reading '1/4 / KREUTZER / 1772,' with the Günzburg mint mark 'G' placed below in the lower field. The reverse is of plain, utilitarian design without additional ornamental devices. The milled edge borders the coin's periphery. The straightforward typographic layout is characteristic of small-denomination copper coinage struck for local circulation in the Habsburg territories. |
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Burgau was a small Habsburg margraviate in Swabia, administratively subordinate to Further Austria rather than to Vienna directly, and its copper coinage of the 1770s reflects the grinding fiscal pressure of the post-Seven Years' War reforms. Maria Theresia's administration pushed hard to rationalize petty coinage across the scattered Austrian territories, and these fractional copper pieces were part of that effort — local in production, imperial in authority.
KM#6 spans six years of issue, suggesting steady if unspectacular demand from a rural economy where quarter-kreuzer transactions were daily reality.