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3 Kreuzers - Charles VI Graz

Issuer Graz Mint (Habsburg Monarchy)
Year 1729-1740
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Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
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Reverse description Crowned imperial double-headed eagle displayed in the center of the field, with the Habsburg escutcheon on its breast bearing the lion of Styria. The denomination numeral 3 appears prominently at the bottom center below the eagle, flanked by small ornamental crosses. The date is divided across the upper field on either side of the crown. A continuous Latin legend in abbreviated form encircles the design within a beaded border, referencing the emperor's hereditary titles.
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Reverse lettering ARCHID AUST DUX BURG STYRIÆ date
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Charles VI spent much of his reign after 1713 consumed by the Pragmatic Sanction — the legal instrument he needed every European power to guarantee so his daughter Maria Theresa could inherit the Habsburg lands intact. The diplomatic energy and treasure poured into securing those promises left imperial finances perpetually strained, and the small silver Kreuzer denominations from Graz carried much of the everyday transactional burden in Styria during these decades.

The Graz mint operated under the Inner Austrian administration and struck this type continuously across the final eleven years of Charles's reign. He died in October 1740 having eaten a dish of mushrooms, triggering the War of the Austrian Succession almost immediately — the very conflict the Pragmatic Sanction was meant to prevent.

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