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1 Liard / Oord - Maria Theresia
| Issuer | Austrian Netherlands |
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| Year | 1776-1780 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold four-line Latin inscription filling the plain field, reading AD / USUM / BELGII / AUSTR·, with the date appearing on a fifth line below. Beneath the date, in the lower exergual area, the Brussels mint mark — an angel face — is struck. The deeply incised lettering is large and unadorned, occupying the central field without additional ornamental devices, the whole enclosed within a beaded border. This reverse type, with its straightforward declaration of purpose for use in the Austrian Netherlands, is characteristic of the Maria Theresa copper coinage struck at Brussels. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Austrian Netherlands liard issues of the 1770s were produced under a Brussels administration increasingly at odds with Vienna. Maria Theresia's government had been pushing centralized reforms through the region for decades — reforms that would eventually trigger the Brabant Revolution of 1789, just years after these coins were struck. Small copper was the denomination ordinary Belgians actually handled daily, which makes these pieces the most tangible material record of Habsburg rule in the Low Countries before it collapsed entirely.