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Kreuzer - Frederick V
| Issuer | Duchy of Austria (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1461 |
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| Reference(s) | CNA#Fa15 |
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| Obverse lettering | +A-EI-OV*-1461 |
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| Reverse lettering | +FRIDERICV*IMPER |
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Frederick V — simultaneously Duke of Austria and, from 1452, Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III — issued coinage under persistent financial strain, partly a consequence of decades of conflict with his brother Albert VI over the Austrian inheritance. The kreuzer denomination itself had migrated into Austrian minting practice from Tyrol and the Italian marches, where the type originated in the thirteenth century. By 1461, Frederick was effectively besieged in Vienna by his own disaffected nobility and Hungarian pressure from Matthias Corvinus, making stable coin production an act of political necessity as much as fiscal administration.