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1 Soldo - Joseph II
| Issuer | Gorizia, County of |
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| Year | 1788 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Gorizia — a lion passant in the upper canton over horizontal barry stripes — set within an elaborate baroque cartouche with foliate and scroll mantling to either side. The shield is surmounted by an imperial crown with cross finial, all rendered in high relief against a plain field. A beaded border runs along the coin's periphery. |
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| Mint | K - Kremnica, Slovakia (1328-date) |
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Gorizia's copper coinage under Joseph II reflects his broader administrative reorganization of the Habsburg hereditary lands, which saw peripheral counties brought under tighter centralized fiscal control. The county had long maintained semi-autonomous minting rights, and by 1788 those days were effectively numbered — Joseph's death in 1790 and the subsequent rollback of his reforms under Leopold II brought this short series to an abrupt close.