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10 Kreuzers - Maria Theresia Hall
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1754-1765 |
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| Thickness | 0.83 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped and crowned bust of Empress Maria Theresa facing right, set within a wreath composed of interlaced palm and laurel branches. The imperial title legend encircles the effigy in Latin, reading for Maria Theresia, by the Grace of God, Empress of the Romans, Queen of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. The portrait is rendered in the baroque court style characteristic of mid-18th century Habsburg coinage. The legend is separated from the central design by the wreath border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hall in Tirol was one of the Habsburg monarchy's most important minting facilities, drawing on silver from the rich Schwaz mines that had helped finance Habsburg ambitions since the fifteenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century those mines were in serious decline, and the 10 Kreuzer issues of this period reflect the gradual pressure on silver supply that would eventually force significant monetary reforms after Maria Theresia's death.
The Theresian reform of 1750 had established the Konventionsthaler standard, to which this denomination was pegged — a system negotiated with Bavaria specifically to stabilize trade across the fractured currency zones of the Holy Roman Empire.