5 Ducats - Maria Theresa

This piece was struck the year Maria Theresa convened the Transylvanian Diet at Sibiu, a session she used to push through sweeping administrative reforms that effectively curtailed the traditional privileges of the Transylvanian nobility. The five-ducat denomination was not a circulation coin — it was a presentation strike, produced in limited quantities for diplomatic gifts and court favor.

Resch's attribution places this among the rarest multiples of the Transylvanian series.