Austrian Netherlands, 1/2 Thaler 1789, Vienna

A beautiful fully legible piece, a rarer Dutch half-taler on the auction market.

A rarer item in this state of preservation.

Obverse: bust of the reigning monarch wearing a laurel wreath, clockwise, mint mark A below it, legend in the rim:
IOSEPH-II-D-G-R-I-S-A-GER-HIE-HVN-BOH-REX-;

Reverse: a Burgundian cross, between whose arms a crown and the Order of the Golden Fleece, in the rim legend:
ARCH-AVST-DVX-BVRG-LOTH-BRAB-COM-FLAN-1789-;