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3 Kreuzers - Leopold I St Veit
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1658-1706 |
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| Value | 3 Kreuzer (1/20) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Leopold I of Habsburg facing right, the top of the effigy breaking through the inner beaded circle and overlapping into the outer legend. The portrait displays the characteristic elongated features of the Habsburg dynasty. The surrounding legend reads in abbreviated Latin for 'Leopoldus Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperator Semper Augustus Germaniae Hungariae et Bohemiae Rex'. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Leopold I's three-kreuzer pieces from St. Veit — the old Carinthian mint operating out of Klagenfurt — were workhorses of small commercial exchange across the hereditary lands throughout his extraordinarily long reign. St. Veit's output was never on the scale of the great Bohemian or Tyrolean mints, and examples attributable specifically to that facility are meaningfully less encountered than their Vienna or Graz counterparts. Leopold's reign spanned the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, two major conflicts with France, and persistent currency debasement pressures that made low-denomination silver issues politically sensitive to maintain at consistent fineness.