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Copper Kreutzer - Ć 25 mm – 5,5 grams - Flipside same way up - Struck in 1812. |
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1 KREUTZER 1812 - SCHEIDMUNZE DER WIENER WAEHRUNG
Embellished cipher above the cointype above date, standing in a decorated circle. At the rim rest of the text. |
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FRANZ KAIS.V.OEST.KO.Z.HU.BO.GAL.U.LO (Franz, Kaiser von Österreich, Koenig von Hungarn,
Boehmen, Galizien und Lombardien - Franz II, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia,
Galicia and Lombardy). Bust of emperor Franz II, facing right. |
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"S" = Schmollnitz (Hungary) |
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| I found this coins in a old roman coin lot. It was minted only a few year after Van Berckel, the then royal coinmaster had left the service of his Emperor. Van Berkcel originally came from my home town, though not much reminds us of him there. |
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