AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 2 Corona 1912, aUNC

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

AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 2 Corona 1912, aUNC

Name: AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 2 Corona 1912, aUNC
SKU: E543
Price: 35 EUR
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Obverse: Franz Joseph I bust bare headed facing right surrounded by the legend. Signature below bust.

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

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: Crowned double headed imperial eagle with arms of the Habsburg-Lorraine. Value divided by the tail feathers, date below.

Lettering (Latin): II CORONÆ MDCCCCXII; 2 COR.; 1912

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

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.

€ 35

In stock

Country	Austria
Ruler	Franz Joseph I (1848-1916)
Face Value	2 Corona
Year of issue	1912
Metal	Silver
Fineness	835
Catalogue #	KM# 2821; Herinek 780
Weight, g.	9,95
Diameter, mm.	27,01
Our code	E543
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	-

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History

By 1912, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was watching the Balkans with something between alarm and dread.

The First Balkan War erupted in October of that year, and what unfolded over the following weeks shook Vienna profoundly. Serbia – small, troublesome, perpetually restless Serbia – emerged from the conflict dramatically enlarged, its army battle-hardened, its confidence incandescent. Austria-Hungary had issued ultimatums and mobilized troops along the frontier, at enormous financial cost, and achieved nothing. The Serbian “Piedmont,” as Vienna’s hawks called it, was growing stronger by the month, drawing the South Slavic populations of the empire toward Belgrade like a magnet. For Franz Joseph’s ministers, the question was no longer whether the empire faced a crisis in the Balkans, but how long could it be deferred.

And yet Vienna in 1912 was also, still, one of the most extraordinary cities on earth. Klimt was painting. Schönberg was composing music that nobody was quite ready to hear. Freud was refining his theories in a quiet apartment on Berggasse. The Ringstrasse gleamed. The coffee houses hummed with argument and literature. The empire contained, within its improbable borders, a concentration of intellectual and artistic life that no other city could match – a last, luminous flowering before the frost.

The 2 Corona of 1912 was struck at the Vienna Mint into this charged atmosphere – a coin of the Latin Monetary Union, interchangeable with a French franc from Brussels to Palermo, bearing the familiar profile of Franz Joseph I, who was eighty-two years old that year and had now reigned for sixty-four. The reverse carried the crowned double-headed imperial eagle, that ancient symbol of a dynasty that had held together a dozen languages and a hundred grievances since the fifteenth century.

This coin belongs to that last hour of apparent normalcy – ordinary silver currency in an empire that was, without quite knowing it, living on borrowed time.