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1 Kreuzer Wine, Landmark Money, Gastein-Mühlbach
| Issuer | Salzburg, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1709-1727 |
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| Value | 1 Kreuzer (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse lettering | FDCI I 17 15 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "Wine Kreuzer" of the Gastein-Mühlbach mining district was a purely localized emergency currency, issued under archbishops Franz Anton von Harrach and Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein to address a chronic shortage of small change in the remote Gastein valley. The district's hot spring trade and salt-dependent economy ran on transactions too small for the regional silver coinage to handle efficiently. These copper pieces circulated within a tightly bounded geographic area — functionally worthless the moment they left the valley.
The Zöttl reference numbers spanning 3583–3589 reflect documented die variations across the issue's eighteen-year run, a surprisingly long production period for what was essentially a stopgap measure.