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10 Kreuzers - Charles Theodore Konventionskreuzer
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1778-1798 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The enthroned Madonna seated facing, holding the Christ Child on her left arm, positioned atop an ornamental pedestal; the denomination numeral '10' appears on the pedestal, flanked by decorative branches at either side. The date is divided by the Madonna's figure, appearing in the fields to left and right. The legend PATRONA BAVARIAE, identifying the Virgin Mary as Patroness of Bavaria, runs around the upper periphery of the coin. |
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Charles Theodore inherited Bavaria in 1777 following the extinction of the Wittelsbach-Sulzbach line, a succession that immediately triggered the War of the Bavarian Succession against Prussia. The Konventionskreuzer system itself dated to the 1753 Vienna Coinage Convention, which attempted to standardize silver coinage across the Holy Roman Empire — a coordination effort that succeeded only partially, with Bavaria among the more compliant minters.
The .500 fineness reflects deliberate debasement from the Convention's original targets, a quiet fiscal compromise that became normalized across the Empire's smaller states by the 1770s.