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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4598501, member: 102103&quot;]@<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/quarantine-diary.356993/members/willieboyd2.4910/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/quarantine-diary.356993/members/willieboyd2.4910/">willieboyd2</a>:&nbsp; Thanks for posting the other two coins of the series.</p><p>As for reading Cyrillic, it&#039;s all Greek to me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Day 103:&nbsp; Austria, 7 Kreutzer, 1802 A, 0.250 billon, struck over 1795 12 Kreutzer</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, Austria had huge budget gaps during the Napoleonic Wars.&nbsp; During the </p><p>War of the First Coalition, it used a mix of paper money issues and debasement of </p><p>the subsidiary coinage to raise funds.&nbsp; The 1795 <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18040.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18040.html" rel="nofollow">12 kreutzer</a> was only 0.250</p><p>fineness billon, and 4.68 grams, about the silver content of a 6 kreutzer formerly.</p><p>They were later restruck at a <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18836.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18836.html" rel="nofollow">7 kreutzer</a> valuation in 1802.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin was made into a pin, and has two sharp metal spikes on the </p><p>obverse where the clasp had been mounted.&nbsp; So it could do some vicious damage </p><p>to other nearby coins if just left in a 2 x 2 with the spikes poking through the film.</p><p>The solder covers some of the obverse design.&nbsp; Supposedly, these were crudely and</p><p>hastily enough struck that on some examples you can see bits of the underlying </p><p>12 kreutzer pattern.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the spelling kreuzer vs. kreutzer, Numista is wildly inconsistent.&nbsp; Wikipedia</p><p>has it as &quot;kreuzer, in English usually kreutzer&quot;.&nbsp; The 1795 coin spells it out as </p><p>&quot;Kreützer&quot;, so I&#039;ve gone with that for today (except for the umlaut, because I am </p><p>too lazy to type extended characters).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138850[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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