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17 Kreuzer - Franz I
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1760 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Holy Roman Emperor Franz I facing right, rendered in a classical baroque style. The emperor is depicted with naturalistic detail typical of mid-18th-century Austrian coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, commencing at approximately 8 o'clock, reading the abbreviated titles for Franciscus Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus, Germaniae, Hierosolymae Rex, Lotharingiae, Barri, Magnus Hetruriae Dux. The truncation of the bust is plain. |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed at the centre of the field, with wings spread and each head facing outward. Upon the eagle's breast is an escutcheon bearing the combined arms of Lorraine and Tuscany. The denomination XVII, expressed in Roman numerals, appears in the exergue below the eagle. The surrounding Latin legend, commencing at approximately 7 o'clock, reads IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI, followed by the mint date and mintmaster's initials. |
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The 17-kreuzer denomination is one of the odder fractional values in Habsburg coinage, and it exists for a specific reason: it was tariffed to circulate at par with the Dutch 6-stuiver piece across the Austrian Netherlands and adjacent trade zones, a purely practical response to the currency patchwork of mid-18th century Central Europe. Franz I struck these primarily to satisfy cross-border commerce rather than domestic accounting, where the denomination had no natural place in the standard kreuzer series.
Her#378 corresponds to the Vienna mint. The KM#2026.2 distinction separates this variety from the .1 issue by subtle legend and die differences documented in Herinek's Austrian reference.