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6 Kreuzers - Maria Theresia Hall
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1747 |
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| Value | 6 Kreuzers (0.1) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Maria Theresia facing right, without tassels on the dress at the shoulder. The legend commences at approximately the 8 o'clock position and reads in Latin around the periphery of the field. The portrait is rendered in the baroque court style typical of mid-18th century Habsburg coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | M THERES D G R // IMP GE HU BO REG |
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The Hall mint, operating out of Tyrol, was Austria's primary silver coining facility for much of the early modern period, fed directly by the rich ore deposits of the Schwaz mines. By 1747, those mines were well past their sixteenth-century peak, but Hall remained productive. Maria Theresia's monetary reforms were still years away — the sweeping rationalization of Habsburg coinage wouldn't come until the 1750s and 1760s — so this issue sits in the last phase of the older, regionally fragmented system she inherited from her father Charles VI.