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1/4 Kreutzer - Maria Theresia
| Issuer | Burgau, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1772-1778 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#6 |
| Obverse description | Crowned coat of arms of the Margraviate of Burgau centered in the field, with the imperial crown displayed above. A continuous Latin legend in abbreviated form encircles the design, reading clockwise from the 12 o'clock position, expanding to 'Maria Theresia Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperatrix Hungariae Bohemiae Regina Archiducissa Austriae Margravia Burgundiae.' The heraldic shield is rendered in the Baroque style typical of mid-18th century Habsburg coinage. The overall composition reflects the dynastic and territorial authority of the Empress-Queen. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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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.