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1 Kreutzer - Franz I Kupferkreutzer
| Issuer | Imperial Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 1749-1765 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Emperor Francis I facing right, wearing a periwig with flowing curls cascading over the shoulders, rendered in a bold Baroque relief. The truncation is plain and unadorned. A toothed border encircles the entire field. The circular Latin legend reads FRANC · D · G · R · I · S · A · GE · IER · REX, abbreviated from Franciscus Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Germaniae Ierusalem Rex, distributed around the periphery of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | EIN KREUTZER 1763 W · |
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Franz I ruled as Holy Roman Emperor largely as a financial administrator while Maria Theresa held political authority — a division that shaped coinage policy directly. The copper kreutzer issues of this period were part of a broader Theresian monetary reform aimed at standardizing the chaotic patchwork of provincial coinages circulating across Habsburg territories, where local issues of wildly inconsistent weight and fineness had undermined trade for decades.
The sixteen-year production window across multiple Austrian mints produced considerable die variation, and examples from provincial facilities often show noticeably cruder workmanship than Vienna strikes.