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10 Kreuzers - Ferdinand V
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1837-1848 |
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| Value | 10 Kreuzers (Krajczár) (⅙) |
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| Obverse lettering | FERD · I · D · G · AVST · IMP · HVNG · B · REX · H · N · V · R · L · V · D · G · L · I · A · A · (Translation: Ferdinand I, dei gratia Austriae imperator, Hungariae, Bohemiae rex huius nominis quintus, rex Lombardiae, Venetiae, Dalmatiae, Galiciae, Lodomeriae, Illyriae, archidux Austriae = Ferdinand I, by the grace of God, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, fifth by this name, King of Lombardy, Venice, Dalmatia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Illyria, and Archduke of Austria.) |
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| Mint | B Kremnica, Slovakia(1328-date) |
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Ferdinand V ruled Hungary as a constitutional king following the reforms of the 1830s Diet, but his reign ended abruptly when revolutionary pressure in 1848 forced his abdication in favor of Franz Joseph — a dynastic maneuver designed to sidestep Ferdinand's earlier concessions to Hungarian liberals. These kreuzers were struck across that entire charged decade, meaning early and late examples exist on either side of the March Laws of 1848, which briefly transformed Hungary into a near-autonomous state before the Habsburg military suppression.
The .500 fineness reflects a deliberate debasement policy that had steadily eroded the silver content of small-denomination coinage since the Napoleonic Wars strained imperial finances.