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1 Kreuzer Landmünz - Leopold I Kuttenberg

Issuer Kingdom of Bohemia
Year 1695
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Value 1 Kreuzer (1⁄60)
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Reverse script Latin
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Mintage 1695 - (fr) marteaux croisés
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Leopold I issued this coin during a period of acute monetary fragmentation in the Habsburg lands, where overlapping local coinage systems — Landmünz, Kreuzer, and Groschen — circulated simultaneously at rates that varied by province and frequently by market. The Kuttenberg (Kutná Hora) mint, one of Bohemia's oldest silver-producing facilities, had been central to Central European coinage since the Groschen era of the 14th century, though by the 1690s it operated under much tighter imperial supervision following the monetary reforms pushed through after the Kipper- und Wipperzeit debacle decades earlier.

The .500 fineness reflects deliberate Habsburg policy for small-denomination subsidiary coinage — fine enough to resist outright rejection, base enough to discourage melting.

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