AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 1 Corona 1915, UNC

Corona, Krone System (1892-1918), Franz Joseph I (1848-1916)

AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 1 Corona 1915, UNC

Name: AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 1 Corona 1915, UNC
SKU: C286
Price: 17 EUR
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Obverse: Franz Joseph I’s bust bare-headed facing right and the engraver’s name below the neck surrounded by the legend

Lettering (Latin): FRANC ∙ IOS ∙ I ∙ D ∙ G ∙ IMP ∙ AVSTR ∙ REX BOH ∙ GAL ∙ ILL ∙ ETC ∙ ET AP ∙ REX HVNG ∙

Translation: Franz Joseph I, by the grace of God, emperor of Austria, king of Bohemia, Galicia, Illyria and so forth and apostolic king of Hungary

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Reverse: Imperial crown between laurel springs, date below.

Lettering (Latin): 1; 1915

Engraver: Anton Scharff, Andreas Neudeck

Edge (text in Latin): VIRIBVS VNITIS

Translation: With United Forces (the Motto of the house of Habsburg)

The pictures provided are of the actual coin for sale.

Guaranteed genuine.

€ 17

In stock

Country	Austria
Ruler	Franz Joseph I (1848-1916)
Face Value	1 Corona
Year of issue	1915
Metal	Silver
Fineness	835
Catalogue #	KM# 2820; Herinek 805
Weight, g.	4,99
Diameter, mm.	23,01
Our code	C286
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	-

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History

In 1915, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was at war on three fronts simultaneously – and beginning, quietly, to buckle.

The previous year had been catastrophic. The campaign against Serbia, expected to last weeks, had stalled and reversed with humiliating results. The Russian steamroller had driven deep into Galicia, threatening the heartland of the empire. The Italian declaration of war in May 1915 opened yet another front along the Alpine border. Austria-Hungary was fighting the war it had started and fighting it badly – propped up increasingly by German divisions, German logistics, German command decisions. The empire’s military independence was eroding almost as fast as its silver reserves.

That last detail matters enormously for this coin. In 1914, when the war began, Austria-Hungary immediately suspended the convertibility of its currency and began printing paper money to finance the conflict. Silver – real silver, the metal that had underpinned Habsburg coinage for centuries – was now too precious to spend. The great silver denominations were hoarded, melted, and diverted. The 1 Corona of 1915 was among the last silver coins struck for general circulation before the metal vanished entirely from Austrian everyday life, replaced by iron, zinc, and eventually paper substitutes that nobody trusted and everybody was forced to accept.

On the obverse, the familiar profile of Franz Joseph I – eighty-five years old in 1915, the longest-reigning monarch in European history, a man who had come to the throne before the revolutions of 1848 and was now presiding over a world war he had helped to ignite and could no longer control. He had signed the ultimatum to Serbia in July 1914. His heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, had been shot in Sarajevo a month before. The old emperor, who had buried a wife, a son, and every illusion of peaceful old age, simply continued – receiving ministers, signing documents, dying slowly in his uniform.

He would be dead by November 1916. The empire would follow two years later, dissolved by defeat and exhaustion into the dozen nations that had always been struggling beneath its surface.

This coin is silver from the last year it was still possible to pretend that everything would hold together.