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20 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Nuremberg |
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| Year | 1765-1768 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold double-headed imperial eagle displayed, each head crowned separately and surmounted by a single large imperial crown above, symbolizing the Holy Roman Empire. The breast of the eagle bears a crowned escutcheon with the Austrian arms. The wings are finely detailed with feather engraving in the baroque style. The circular legend IOSEPHVS II . D•G• ROM.IMP.SEMP.AVG. surrounds the design, identifying the reigning Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II by his full imperial titulature. |
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Nuremberg's right to strike silver coinage was a persistent source of friction with the Habsburg administration throughout the eighteenth century, and the city jealously guarded its imperial minting privileges even as its political influence contracted. This issue falls within the final decades before the city's mediation in 1806, when Napoleon simply dissolved the Free Imperial City's centuries-old autonomy and transferred it to Bavaria.
The .589 fineness places it below the Conventionsthaler standard established by the 1753 Munich Convention — a deliberate choice that allowed Nuremberg to stretch its silver supply while nominally remaining within imperial monetary agreements.