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plonker Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 07/04/2013 10:50 am I got these last week 6/28 and thought should write up little bit about the history behind coin. It is a commemorative coin and not rare with 275,000 minted. However I love the look of the coin and the kind a sad history surrounding the Franz Joseph I of Austro Hungarian empire. They got married in 1854 and this coin commemorate the 25th anniversary. The marriage was not a happy one in any terms. Young Elizabeth (Sisi) was just 16 when got married and she couldn't handle the pressure of being an empress in Austro Hungarian empire which was one of the largest in Europe at the time. Their only son Prince Rudolph committed Murder suicide in 1889 and Sisi was killed by a anarchist in 1898. Franz Joseph's nephew Franz Ferdinand was murdered in 6/28/1914 which lead to the WWI. I was looking up the history of this Royal couple and realize I got the coin the same day his nephew was killed. Also Franz Joseph had a brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, whom you may know ruled Mexico for a little while and was killed there in 1867. There is a famous 1 Peso which I have with his bust on one side. He died in 196 during the WWI and his 68 year reign was the 3rd longest in Europe. They are all buried in the imperial crypt in Vienna. Courtesy of Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Crypt isn't coin collecting wonderful ? Happy 4th everyone. Report this Post to the Staff

publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 07/12/2013 02:59 am I have quite the collection of Francis Joseph myself. Note the use of "quintum lustrum" for 25 years, a "lustrum" being a period of five years, after which the census rolls at Rome were ceremonially "washed" (ie, rechecked to make sure they didn't include dead people or errors). The same usage appears on his Jubilee coins of 1908. Report this Post to the Staff
publius Pillar of the Community United States 807 Posts	Posted 07/12/2013 03:03 am Here are the 1 & 5 corona pieces. (Strangely, the 2 corona was only issued in 1912-13.) The full motto means "Twelve lustra gloriously completed", or something like that, ie, he hath reigned over us sixty years. Yours is of course "They celebrated five lustra of marriage on 24 April 1879". Report this Post to the Staff
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