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20 Kreuzers - Maria Theresia Vienna
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1766-1780 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with wings spread, bearing on its breast a shield of Austria (horizontal barry of six, argent and gules). The denomination numeral 20 appears in an oval cartouche at the base of the design, flanked by decorative acanthus scrollwork and foliate branches. Mint-master initials appear in the lower central field below the eagle's tail. The circular Latin legend ARCHID AUST DUX BURG CO TYR encircles the design, with the date inscribed to the left of the eagle's head. |
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Maria Theresia's coinage reform of 1750 had already standardized Habsburg silver denominations, but the 20 Kreuzer remained a workhorse of everyday commerce across a fragmented empire whose subjects spoke a dozen languages and trusted coins over paper. Vienna's output across this fourteen-year run was prodigious, with the Günzburg, Prague, and Kremnitz mints striking concurrently — Her#845–862 catalogues the full spread of mint-mark varieties that resulted.
After Maria Theresia's death in 1780, Joseph II continued striking coins in her name, freezing the 1780 date. The 20 Kreuzer line did not receive that posthumous treatment — making the final dated strikes from this series genuinely terminal issues rather than the commemorative confections her Thaler became.