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1 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Augsburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1695-1703 |
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| Value | 1 Kreuzer (1⁄120) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, its wings spread and each head surmounted by a separate crown beneath a central imperial crown. On the eagle's breast, a circular orb bears the numeral I denoting the denomination of one Kreuzer. The surrounding Latin legend, reading LEOPOLDVS D G ROM IMP S AVG, records the titles of Emperor Leopold I and runs between the beaded inner border and the milled outer rim. |
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Augsburg's kreuzer coinage of this period was produced under the city's own municipal mint authority, a right jealously guarded through the Holy Roman Empire's complex web of minting privileges. The city had been a major financial center since the Fugger banking dynasty made it synonymous with European capital in the sixteenth century, but by the 1690s that dominance had long faded. These small silver pieces circulated in a city still recovering from the economic disruption of the Thirty Years' War and navigating the monetary chaos of late seventeenth-century German coinage, when debasement among neighboring states constantly pressured honest issuers.
The Forster reference places this among a tightly documented municipal series, with Vetterle's dating suggesting continuous production across at least eight years under a standardized type.