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14 Liards / Oorden - Maria Theresia
| Issuer | Austrian Netherlands |
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| Year | 1755-1778 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | A Burgundian cross occupies the center of the field, dividing the denomination expressed as XIV in Roman numerals. A crown surmounts the cross, and a mint mark appears in the lower field below. The surrounding legend, rendered in Latin, abbreviates the full imperial and royal titles of Empress Maria Theresia: MAR·THERES·D:G·R·IMP·GERM·HUNG·BOH·R:, expanding to Maria Theresia, by the Grace of God, Empress of the Romans, Queen of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. The overall design is executed in the restrained Baroque style characteristic of the Habsburg Netherlands coinage of this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 14 liards denomination was a peculiarly Belgian solution — the liard being the local accounting unit used in the Austrian Netherlands while Vienna preferred its own reckoning system. Maria Theresia's administration tolerated this regional coinage partly to avoid the friction that monetary standardization had caused under earlier Habsburg governors. The .507 fineness sits well below the silver standard Vienna applied to its own issues, a deliberate concession to local minting tradition rather than any shortage of bullion.
Production stretched across more than two decades, with pieces struck at the Brussels mint under successive master wardens.