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1 Kreuzer - Maria Theresia Siege of Prague
| Issuer | Prague, City of |
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| Year | 1757 |
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| Reference(s) | Diet#1049, Her#1483, KM#274a, Schön DM#1 |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with a shield bearing the arms of Bohemia superimposed on the breast. The numeral '1' denoting the denomination appears below the eagle within the tail feathers, which divide the surrounding Latin legend. The legend ARCH AU DUX BU SI M MO encircles the design within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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During the Seven Years' War, Prussian forces under Frederick the Great besieged Prague in the spring of 1757. Cut off and running short of silver, the city's administration authorized emergency coinage struck in tin — a material scraped together from whatever was available locally. These siege pieces were never intended to outlast the emergency, and most were melted or discarded once normal currency returned.
The Diet#1049 and Her#1483 references place this firmly within the recognized siege coinage corpus, distinct from regular imperial Kreuzer issues of the same reign. Frederick lifted the siege in June 1757 after his defeat at Kolín, meaning the window of production was under two months.