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6 Kreuzers - Leopold I Graz
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1665-1675 |
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| Weight | 3.27 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Emperor Leopold I facing right, set within a beaded inner circle. Below the portrait, the denomination VI appears in Roman numerals within a cartouche or frame, flanking which the legend is divided. The emperor is depicted with characteristic Habsburg physiognomy, wearing a laurel wreath. The surrounding legend gives the emperor's full titles in abbreviated Latin. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Leopold I spent much of this decade fighting a two-front crisis: the protracted Ottoman wars that would eventually culminate in the 1683 siege of Vienna, and chronic fiscal strain that forced repeated debasements of the subsidiary silver coinage. The Graz mint — serving Inner Austria — was kept active precisely because the empire could not rely on Vienna alone to supply the region's transactional currency during wartime mobilization.
Herinek's tight variety range (1153–1161) reflects genuine die diversity across the eleven-year run, not collector splitting.