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That's interesting, had no idea why they were so text heavy. i have a 15 kreuzer with the same text...





@Siberian Man I'm not really sure, I think it was a circulating coin but @chrisild would be the fellow to answer that.

i really didn't know anything about these coins, other than their size. the 30 kreuzer is 37 mm and the 15 kreuzer is 35 mm, nice big coins!

 

A few prooflike Austrian coronas from my collection:

 

Let's call it an almost normal coin. At that time the "silver gulden" and the "paper gulden" had different values, and these coins were issued as sub-units of the paper money. A few years later, in 1811 and again in 1816, Austria declared bankruptcy by the way ... I came across this article in a language that you will understand better than I do. http://www.numizm.ru/html/v/v3kupn3e_ili_obmenn3e_bilet3.html Hope it's accurate.

Christian

 

They basically are paper money. The word "Banco-Zettel" is just an old term for a banknote. Today the term is not used any more, but in the mid-18th century paper money was still new. Why the reference to Vienna and not just Austria? Because Vienna had a better credit rating as we would say nowadays. The Stadt-Banco was under control of the imperial government ...

Christian

 

10 kreuzer 1764, silver, weight - 3,07 g., size - 24,2 mm, thickness - 0,83 mm, mintage - unknown. Such coins were releazed at 1754-55, 1761 and 1763-65.