Item number: A3289

Year: AD 1758

Material: Gold

Size: 26.2 x 26.2 mm

Manufactured by: Brussels Mint

Provenance: Fuchin Coin 2025

This is a 1 S’dor gold coin issued in AD 1758 in Belgium, then under the rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty.

The coin is encircled on both the obverse and reverse by a toothed border. The centre of the obverse features a right-facing half-length portrait of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, depicted wearing ornate court dress and a small crown. Below her right shoulder appears the engraver’s initial “R”, the signature of renowned French medallist Jacques-Antoine Roettiers.

Surrounding the portrait is the Latin inscription of the empress’s title: “MAR · TH · D · G · R · IMP · G · HUN · BOH · R ·”, which expands to: “Maria Theresa, by the Grace of God, Empress of the Romans, Queen of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia.”

Maria Theresa’s father, Charles VI, had no male heir. According to the traditional Habsburg succession laws, only male descendants were permitted to inherit the throne. To ensure his daughter’s right to succession, Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, a legal decree that allowed Maria Theresa to become the first and only female sovereign in the history of the Habsburg dynasty.

However, dissatisfaction among the German princes within the Holy Roman Empire, as well as opposition from neighbouring powers such as France, led to the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession (AD 1740–1748). The conflict ultimately concluded with Austria ceding certain territories and the international recognition of Maria Theresa’s rule, alongside that of her husband, Francis Stephen, who became Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor.

The reverse of the coin features the coat of arms of the Austrian Netherlands, consisting of a crowned shield adorned with arrow-shaped decorations at each corner. Within the shield, the left side displays the arms of Austria, while the right side bears the diagonal stripes of the Duchy of Burgundy, symbolising the medieval rulers of the Belgian region. Beneath the shield is a mint mark indicating the coin was struck at the Brussels Mint.

Surrounding the coat of arms is a Latin inscription listing several of the Habsburg titles in the Low Countries: “ARCH · AUS · DUX · BURG · BRAB · C · FL ·”, which abbreviates: “Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy and Brabant, Count of Flanders”. The reverse also bears the minting date: 1758.

The Austrian Netherlands can be traced back to AD 1713, when the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. Under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, the newly established Bourbon monarchy of Spain ceded its territories in the Low Countries to the Austrian Habsburgs in exchange for international recognition of Philip V as King of Spain.

In AD 1792, the Austrian Netherlands were occupied by French revolutionary forces, and following the Napoleonic Wars, the region was incorporated into the newly formed Kingdom of the Netherlands. Eventually, in AD 1831, it gained independence and became the modern Kingdom of Belgium.

物件編號: A3289

年代: 公元 1758 年

材質: 黃金

尺寸: 26.2 x 26.2 mm

製造地: 布魯塞爾造幣廠

來源: 福君錢幣 2025

這是一枚公元1758年，奧地利哈布斯堡家族統治下的比利時所發行的1索多爾金幣。

錢幣正反兩面的周圍以一道齒邊環繞。錢幣正面的中央是身著華服，頭戴小皇冠的奧地利女皇瑪麗亞·特蕾莎右側半身像。女皇右肩下緣有一個法國知名雕刻師雅克·勒提耶的姓名戳記「R」。肖像周圍環繞著女皇的拉丁頭銜，「MAR · TH · D · G · R · JMP · G · HUN · BOH · R ·」意思是「瑪麗亞·特蕾莎，蒙上帝之恩，羅馬人的皇帝，德意志、匈牙利與波希米亞的女王」。

瑪麗亞·特蕾莎的父親查理六世並未有男性子嗣，根據哈布斯堡家族的繼承規定，原先只允許男性子嗣繼承皇位。查理六世為確保女兒的繼承權通過《1713年國事詔書》，使得瑪麗亞·特蕾莎成為哈布斯堡歷史上唯一的女性統治者。然而神聖羅馬帝國內部不滿的諸侯國和法國等鄰國介入之下，自公元1740至1748年爆發奧地利王位繼承戰爭，最終以奧地利割讓土地和各國承認瑪麗亞·特蕾莎和夫婿法蘭茲·史蒂芬，即法蘭茲一世的統治收尾。

錢幣背面是奧屬尼德蘭的紋章，即四個角落以箭頭裝飾的帶冠盾牌，盾牌內的左側是奧地利的紋章，右側的斜線則是中世紀曾經統治比利時地區的勃艮第公國家徽，紋章下緣則有一個布魯塞爾造幣廠的戳記。紋章周圍以拉丁文標示哈布斯堡家族於低地國地區的諸多頭銜「ARCH · AUS · DUX · BURG · BRAB · C · FL ·」分別是「奧地利大公、勃艮第公爵、布拉班特公爵、法蘭德斯伯爵」，以及錢幣鑄造的年份「1758」。

奧屬尼德蘭能上溯至公元1713年，西班牙王位繼承戰爭結束後，改由波旁家族繼承的西班牙王國根據《烏得勒支條約》割讓其低地國領土予哈布斯堡家族統治的奧地利王國以換取承認。公元1792年，奧屬尼德蘭遭到法國佔領，後續隨著拿破崙戰爭的終結被併入荷蘭王國，並且在公元1831年獨立成為比利時王國。