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20 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1774 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a large crowned double-headed imperial eagle with wings displayed, each head surmounted by a separate crown beneath a central imperial crown. The eagle bears on its breast an escutcheon with the Habsburg arms. The legend IOSEPHVS II. ROM. IMP. SEM. AVG. encircles the design along the rim, identifying Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II as the sovereign authority under whose patronage the city coin was issued. The overall engraving reflects the late Baroque style characteristic of southern German city coinage of the period. |
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Nuremberg's right to strike silver coinage had been contested repeatedly by the Holy Roman Emperor throughout the eighteenth century, with the city's mint operating under periodic imperial scrutiny over alloy standards and weight tolerances. By 1774, the city was in accelerating fiscal decline — heavily indebted from decades of administrative mismanagement — and silver fractional issues like this one were among the last expressions of meaningful municipal minting activity before the city's finances effectively collapsed in the 1790s. Nuremberg would be absorbed into Bavaria in 1806, ending over five centuries of free imperial status.