1 Kreuzer - Charles VI

Charles VI spent much of his reign pressing European powers to accept the Pragmatic Sanction, the succession instrument that would eventually allow his daughter Maria Theresa to inherit. Hungary was among the first kingdoms to ratify it, in 1722, making these kreuzers struck in the middle years of that political negotiation something of a byproduct of dynastic anxiety. The tiny silver content — well under a gram — reflects the chronic debasement pressure on small-denomination Hungarian coinage throughout the early eighteenth century.