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15 Kreuzers - Maria Theresa
| Issuer | Hungary |
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| Year | 1743-1745 |
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| Value | 15 Kreuzers (Krajcár) (1/8) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Maria Theresa facing right, her hair elaborately styled with multiple curls and adorned with a floral ornament at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in relatively small scale within the field, with fine lace detailing visible on the décolletage. A beaded inner border frames the design. The encircling Latin legend reads continuously around the bust, interrupted only by interpuncts. |
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| Obverse lettering | M · THERES · D · G · REG · HU · BO · A · A (Translation: MARIA THERESIA DEI GRATIA REGINA HVNGARIÆ BOHEMIÆ ARCHIDVX AVSTRIÆ Maria Theresia, by the grace of God, Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, Archduke of Austria) |
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Hungary's 15 kreuzer denomination had a complicated political footing in the 1740s. Maria Theresa's right to the Habsburg throne was contested almost immediately upon her accession in 1740, triggering the War of Austrian Succession. The Hungarian Diet's support — famously dramatized in the 1741 Pressburg session where the nobility pledged military backing — was bought partly through concessions to Hungarian constitutional privileges, which is why Hungarian coinage of this period was issued under separate authority from the Austrian series and bears distinct references in the Hungarian corpus.
The short three-year window of this issue reflects fiscal pressures rather than any policy continuity.