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Maria Theresa

Period: 1740-1780

Archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She also ruled the Austrian Netherlands, where her reign brought a period of relative calm and prosperity.

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Portrait of Maria Theresa
Martin van Meytens · Public domain

Finds from this ruler

Stories

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.