30 Kreuzers - Maria Theresia Vienna

These 30 Kreuzer pieces were struck during the War of the Austrian Succession, when Maria Theresia was fighting simultaneously against Bavaria, France, Prussia, and Saxony to retain her inheritance following her father Charles VI's death in 1740. The Pragmatic Sanction he had spent decades securing proved worth almost nothing the moment he died. Vienna's mint was under considerable pressure during these years, producing coin to fund a war the treasury was ill-prepared for.

Her 758–761 catalogues at least four distinct die varieties across the narrow four-year window, suggesting frequent die replacement consistent with high-volume emergency production.