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10 Kreuzers - Maximilian III Joseph Konventionskreuzer
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1763-1777 |
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| Value | 10 Kreuzers (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned oval cartouche bearing the quartered arms of Bavaria and the Palatinate, with a central escutcheon of the imperial orb, set within an elaborate baroque frame and flanked by two dependent chains of chivalric orders. The shield rests upon a pedestal inscribed with the denomination '10', which divides the date to left and right. Sprays of laurel and palm branch flank the composition at left and right respectively, lending a ceremonial character to the overall design. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Maximilian III Joseph inherited a Bavaria devastated by the War of Austrian Succession, and his monetary reforms of the early 1750s — anchored to the Konventionsfuss treaty standard shared with Austria — were a direct attempt to stabilize exchange across the fractured southern German states. The Konventionstaler system, agreed in 1753, set the 20-gulden foot and brought a measure of cross-border coherence that earlier Bavarian coinage had conspicuously lacked.
Hahn 324 is well-documented as a type produced across multiple dies over the fourteen-year span, with minor legend punctuation variants known to specialists. Maximilian died in 1777 without an heir, extinguishing the Wittelsbach electoral line and triggering the War of the Bavarian Succession almost immediately.