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| Issuer | Aachen, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1752-1753 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | LOCVS•CORONATIONIS•CÆSAREÆ 1752 |
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Aachen's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to mint its own coinage, a privilege it exercised sporadically and often under financial duress. The early 1750s emission coincided with the city's chronic fiscal difficulties — Aachen had long struggled with debt obligations tied to its declining textile trade, once the backbone of its economy. KM#42 is a short-lived two-year type, and surviving examples in any grade above heavily circulated are not easily found.