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10 Kreuzers - Franz I
| Issuer | Imperial Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 1825-1830 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | FRANCISCVS I. D. G. AVST. IMPERATOR. |
| Reverse description | The central device features the Habsburg imperial double-headed eagle displayed, with both heads crowned and bearing the dynastic escutcheon on its breast. The eagle holds a sword and sceptre in its talons, and a small palm branch and olive branch flank the denomination numeral '10' contained within a cartouche at the base. The circular legend in Latin capital letters reads HVN. BOH. LOMB. ET VEN. GAL. LOD. IL. REX. A. A. followed by the date, distributed around the periphery of the coin between the eagle's wings and the milled edge. |
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Franz I spent much of his reign systematically dismantling the liberal reforms his nephew would later die trying to restore. The 10 Kreuzer issues of the mid-1820s were struck under the monetary framework established after Austria's catastrophic paper currency collapse following the Napoleonic wars — the Bankozettel inflation had destroyed public confidence in Austrian money so thoroughly that the 1820 monetary reform mandating half-silver coinage was less a policy choice than an act of institutional survival.
The .500 fineness reflects that compromise directly: enough silver to circulate with credibility, cheap enough to produce at scale across the Vienna and Prague facilities.