20 Kreuzers - Maria Theresia Hall

The 1754 date marks a turning point in Habsburg monetary policy: that year, Maria Theresia and her finance ministers undertook a sweeping coinage reform aimed at standardizing the hopelessly fragmented currency circulating across the hereditary lands. The Hall Mint in Tyrol, one of the oldest continuously operating mints in the empire, was central to that effort — its alpine location had long made it the primary supplier of coin to the Italian and Tyrolean territories.

The Herinek numbers spanning 880–889 reflect genuine die variation across the eleven-year run, not mere cataloguing convention.