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Austrian Netherlands

Period: 1713-1794

Realm: Habsburg Monarchy

Currency: Florin (Austrian Netherlands), 1744-1798

After the War of the Spanish Succession the Southern Netherlands passed to the Austrian Habsburgs. The area covered much of present-day Belgium and stayed Austrian until the French conquest in 1794. Formally the area still belonged to the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire, but it was governed from Vienna.

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Coat of arms of the Austrian Netherlands: the imperial double-headed eagle with the arms of Austria, Lorraine and Burgundy
TRAJAN 117 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Map of the Austrian Netherlands in 1789 with the counties of Flanders, Hainaut and Namur, the duchies of Brabant, Limburg and Luxembourg and the smaller lordships
Fenn-O-maniC · CC BY-SA 3.0

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A silver escalin from 1750

After hundreds of copper coins, silver at last. About the escalin: what it was worth, how to read it, what the soil did to it, and a story I made up for it.