1 Liard / Oord - Maria Theresia

The Austrian Netherlands liard issues of this period were struck under Maria Theresia's ongoing effort to rationalize the patchwork coinage inherited from decades of Spanish and then Austrian Habsburg administration in the Low Countries. The Brussels mint handled production, though output was erratic — copper denominations in particular were subject to chronic shortages of planchet supply during these years.

The dual naming, liard in French and oord in Dutch, reflects the linguistic reality of governing a territory split between Walloon and Flemish populations, a political concession baked directly into the coin itself.