5 Soldi - Maria Theresia

Milan came under Habsburg control in 1714 following the War of the Spanish Succession, and Maria Theresa ruled the duchy as part of her broader Italian territories — never visiting it once. The 5 Soldi series of her final years was produced amid the administrative reforms pushed by her son Joseph, who was already co-regent and systematically standardizing coinage across Habsburg lands. This coin was struck within two years of her death in November 1780, after which Milanese coinage shifted rapidly under Joseph II.