5 Kreuzer - Maria Theresia

Burgau was a small Habsburg margraviate wedged between Bavaria and the Swiss Confederation, and its coinage rights were exercised only fitfully. Maria Theresia's Münzpatent of 1750 had attempted to rationalize currency across Habsburg territories, but peripheral margraviates like Burgau continued issuing locally because regional trade demanded small denomination silver that Vienna's centralized mints were slow to supply. This five kreuzer filled that gap.

The Herinek references 1294–1298 indicate at least five distinct die varieties across the production run — not unusual for a billon issue struck over five years at a minor facility.