15 Kreuzers - Leopold I St Veit

Leopold I's 15 Kreuzer pieces from St. Veit — the ancient Carinthian mint operating since the medieval period — were struck during one of the most catastrophic stretches of Habsburg rule: the Great Turkish War and, more immediately, the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. Military expenditure was crushing, and the imperial mints ran hard to fund campaigns that would ultimately push the Ottomans back to Zenta by 1697. St. Veit's output during this window is notably varied across the Herinek sequence, with individual die marriages producing measurable differences in planchet preparation and strike pressure.