fwo_906959 - HUNGARY - KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - FRANCIS-JOSEPH I 20 Francs or ou 8 Forint 1873 Kremnitz
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Price : 400.00 €
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Price : 400.00 €
Type : 20 Francs or ou 8 Forint
Date: 1873
Mint name / Town : Kremnitz
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,43 g.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FERENCZ JOZSEF I. K. A. CS. ES. M. H. S. D. O. AP. KIR..
Obverse description : Tête laurée de François-Joseph Ier à droite ; KB sous la tête.
Obverse translation : (François-Joseph par la grâce de Dieu empereur d'Autriche et roi apostolique de Hongrie, Croatie, Slavonie et Dalmatie).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MAGYAR - KIRALYSAG/ 1873.
Reverse description : Écu couronné surmonté de la couronne de saint André ; dans le champ 20/ Fr. - 8/ Frt..
Reverse translation : (Royaume de Hongrie).
Historical background
HUNGARY - KINGDOM OF HUNGARY - FRANCIS-JOSEPH I
(8/06/1867-21/11/1916)
François-Joseph I (18/08/1830-21/11/1916) was 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 in Milan and in Venice. It is with authority that he restores order and will reign over the destinies of "Mitteleuropa" for 68 years. He is king of Hungary from 1867, it is the Dual Monarchy. 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 in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 with his wife, the detonator of the First World War. The old emperor died in 1916 before the disintegration of his empire two years later.
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