fwo_662425 - AUSTRIA - FRANZ-JOSEPH I 2 Florins 1859 Kremnitz
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Type : 2 Florins
Date: 1859
Mint name / Town : Kremnitz
Quantity minted : 511000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 36 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,54 g.
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie a été légèrement nettoyée et présente un manque de métal à 12h sans doute lié au retrait d’une bélière. De fines rayures au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FRANC. IOS. I. D. G. AVSTRIAE IMPERATOR .
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite de François-Joseph Ier.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HVNGAR. BOHEM. LOMB. ET. VEN. // 2 FL.// 1859.
Reverse description : Aigle bicéphale couronné.
Historical background
AUSTRIA - FRANZ-JOSEPH I
(2/12/1848-21/11/1916)
François-Joseph I (18/081830-21/11/1916) is the son of Archduke François Charles and Sophie of Bavaria. He succeeded his uncle Ferdinand I of Austria in 1848 in the midst of the European revolution. His throne wavers in Hungary, Bohemia, Milan and Venice. It is with authority that he restores order and will reign over "Mitteleuropa" for 68 years. In 1854 he married Elisabeth of Bavaria (1837-1898), better known as Sissi. Their only son Rodolphe (1858-1890) committed suicide with his mistress in 1890 in Mayerling. Empress Sissi was assassinated in Geneva in 1898. Her nephew François-Ferdinand was assassinated with his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, triggering the First World War. The old emperor died in 1916 before the carving up of his empire two years later.
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