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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 12953918, member: 87809&quot;]I have found this at <a href="http://www.theresia.name/en/svariants.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theresia.name/en/svariants.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.theresia.name/en/svariants.html</a> maybe it helps:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Various articles claim that the Maria Theresia Taler was re-struck with an unchanged appearance since 1780. However, this is only really true for restrikes made after about 1850. Earlier strikes are typically relatively easy to identify. Unfortunately, the statement may cause collectors - and sometimes dealers - to believe that their coins might be original coins struck in 1780 or shortly thereafter. Sometimes such coins will actually be sold as &quot;original strike&quot;. This statement is incorrect, even if considering strikes dated earlier than 1858 (i.e., while the Taler was an official currency) to be originals. Most of the so called &quot;originals&quot; have in reality been struck after 1858, there’s no way to tell if a coin is older or newer then another. In other words no dates. Key identification characteristics for the 1780 strikes are in particular the form of the brooch in the veil on the obverse (no pearls, except for the later Vienna mint strike), the form of the letter &#039;U&#039; in the reverse (AUST.DUX instead of AVST.DUX), the form of the cross next to the the year on the obverse, and the form of the &#039; 7 &#039; in the year. Older Vienna mint strikes (earlier than 1850) are signed I.C.-F.A. instead of S.F.</p><p><br /></p><p>But have in mind that just because it&#039;s a &quot;restrike&quot; does NOT imply that it is &quot;modern.&quot; Austria made a few restrikes after the demise of Franz Joseph I and the passing of the old feudal form of governance leading into WWI. Particularly on older strikes earlier than about 1850, almost each individual coin shows minor differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins, on the reverse after the date, have the symbol <b><i>X </i></b>which recalls the cross of Saint Andrea. It is the identifying sign of the Conventionsthaler of Maria Theresa and was stamped on the coins to commemorate the monetary reform of the &quot;Monetary Foot of 20 florins&quot;, sanctioned by the 1753 agreement with the Duchy of Bavaria.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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