GERMANY FURTHER AUSTRIA 1 kreuzer 1793 H Günzburg mint
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GERMANY, FURTHER AUSTRIA, 1 kreuzer, 1793 H, Günzburg mint, Obverse; crowned arms, FRANC. II. D. G. R. I. S. A. H. B. REX. A. A. M. B., Reverse: EIN KREUZER 1793 H, copper, 23mm, 7,44g, KM19, cleaned aF
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Description
Gunzburg (Günzburg is a town in southwestern Bavaria. It belonged to the Habsburgs from the 14th to the 18th century, thereafter to Bavaria.
Further Austria refers to Habsburg territories in what is now the German state of Bavaria, French Alsace, and northern Switzerland. Bits of these possessions were retained until the Napoleonic wars.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of anarchy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.
