14 Liards / Oorden - Maria Theresia

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.