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1 Ducat - Maria Theresa
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1767-1780 |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The glorified and crowned Virgin Mary, depicted as Patrona Hungariae, is shown seated in three-quarter view upon a crescent moon, holding the Christ Child on her left arm and a sceptre in her right hand, with a radiant nimbus emanating from behind her crowned head. The Hungarian lesser coat of arms appears in the lower field, flanked by the mint mark letters. The date is incorporated within the circular legend, which reads PATRONA REGNI HUNGARIAE. The overall composition reflects the strongly devotional Baroque iconographic tradition associated with Hungarian royal coinage of this period. |
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Hungary's ducats under Maria Theresa were struck at multiple mints — Karlsburg, Kremnitz, and Nagybanya among them — each applying a distinct mint mark, which accounts for the three separate Huszár references collapsing into a single KM type. Kremnitz (Körmöcbánya) had been the dominant Hungarian gold mint since the medieval period and remained so here, though output fluctuated sharply depending on Transylvanian silver revenues that subsidized gold coinage operations.
Maria Theresa died in November 1780, the same year this type's production ended.