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5 Kreuzers - Maria Theresa Hall
| Issuer | Habsburg Monarchy |
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| Year | 1778-1779 |
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| Weight | 2.5 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | ARCHID • AUST • DUX • BURG • CO • TYR • 1779 V.C S. |
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By the late 1770s, Maria Theresa's monetary reforms had been grinding through the Habsburg lands for decades, attempting to impose some coherence on a currency system fragmented across dozens of mints and local traditions. The Hall mint in Tyrol — one of the oldest operating mints in the empire — was among the last to be brought fully into conformity, which partly explains the compressed two-year run for this type.
Billon coinage of this fineness was already a compromise, and contemporaries knew it.