Austrian Netherlands 1762(a) 14 liards
This specimen was lot 1207 in Jean Elsen sale 160 (Brussels, November 2024), where it sold for €80 (about US$101 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT, Duché, Marie-Thérèse (1740-1780), AR plaquette (14 liards), 1762, Bruxelles. D/ Croix de Bourgogne sous une couronne, accostée de la valeur. R/ Aigle impériale couronnée. Beau à Très Beau. (duchy of Brabant, Maria Theresia, 1740-80, silver plaquette of fourteen liards of 1762, Brussels mint. Obverse: Burgundian cross under a crown divides the value; reverse: crowned imperial eagle. Fine to very fine.)"
This type was struck 1755-57 at Antwerp and 1758-78 at Brussels. The SCWC states that there were 216 liards in a kronenthaler, making this coin worth about one fifteenth of a kronenthaler. The Austrians lost Belgium to Revolutionary France in 1797.
Recorded mintage: 589,696.
Specification: 2.7 g, 0.507 fine silver, 22 mm diameter, engraved by Jacques Roëttiers; this specimen is 2,84 g.
Catalog reference: KM 18, W. 1144; VH 826.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 160, Collection de deniers liegeois et Collection de monnaies d'or francaises, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2024.
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