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1 Thaler - Maria Theresia Vienna - Mining Taler
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1758-1765 |
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| Weight | 28.06 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Maria Theresia facing right, her hair elaborately dressed and coiffed in the Baroque style with curls cascading to the shoulder. The bust is shown with an ornate mantle decorated with a tortoiseshell or scale pattern, with a lace fichu visible at the neckline. The circumferential legend commences at approximately 7 o'clock and reads in Latin, abbreviating her imperial and royal titles. A fine toothed border runs along the rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | M THERESIA D G // R IMP GE HU BO REG |
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The "Mining Taler" designation is not decorative — this coin was struck specifically to pay workers at the Habsburg silver and salt mines in the Tyrol and Styria, a direct wage instrument rather than general circulation coinage. Maria Theresia's treasury issued distinct regional talers for labor payments throughout the 1750s and 60s, part of a broader administrative rationalization of the Austrian mining economy pushed through by her finance minister Count Haugwitz.
The Vienna mint produced this type across a seven-year window that brackets the Seven Years' War, a period of severe fiscal strain that paradoxically demanded tighter control over silver output at the source.