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AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 5 Corona 1900, VF

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

AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 5 Corona 1900, VF

Name: AUSTRIA, Franz Joseph I, 5 Corona 1900, VF
SKU: G546
Price: 54 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Obverse: The bust of Franz Joseph I facing right with laurel crown 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, Austrian Emperor, King of Bohemia, Galicia, Illyria etc. and Apostolic King of Hungary

Engraver: Stefan Schwartz

Reverse: Imperial eagle in a circle, value above in Latin, all surrounded by a wreath of crowns and leaves. Value divided by the date below.

Lettering (Latin): QUINQUE CORONÆ; 5 COR.; 1900

Translation: Five Corona; 5 Corona

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.

€ 54 ~~€ 57~~

In stock

Country	Austria
Ruler	Franz Joseph I (1848-1916)
Face Value	5 Corona
Year of issue	1900
Metal	Silver
Fineness	900
Catalogue #	KM# 2807; Herinek 769
Weight, g.	23,84
Diameter, mm.	35,99
Our code	G546
Die Axis	↑↑
Additional info	cleaned

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Purchasing Power

What Could This 5 Corona Buy in 1900?

• about 1-1½ days of a worker’s wages
• roughly 10-14 loaves of bread
• several liters of beer at a tavern
• a railway ticket between nearby cities

The 5 Corona was a substantial silver coin in the currency of Austria-Hungary at the turn of the 20th century.

History

In 1900, Franz Joseph I had already been Emperor of Austria for fifty-two years. He had ascended the throne as a boy of eighteen during the revolutionary chaos of 1848, and had outlasted every crisis, every defeat, every personal tragedy that history could devise. His son Rudolf had shot himself at Mayerling. His wife Elisabeth, the legendary Sisi, had been stabbed by an anarchist in Geneva just two years before this coin was struck. His brother Maximilian had been executed in Mexico. And yet every morning, before the crack of dawn, the emperor rose, dressed in his uniform, sat at his desk, and worked. He was, by then, less a man than an institution.

Vienna in 1900 was two cities at once. On the surface, it was perhaps the most dazzling metropolis in Europe – a city of grand boulevards, imperial palaces, and unprecedented cultural ferment. Gustav Klimt was painting his golden visions. Sigmund Freud was mapping the unconscious in a quiet apartment on Berggasse. Mahler was conducting at the Opera. The Vienna Secession had just declared war on artistic convention with the slogan “Der Zeit ihre Kunst” – To every age its art. The “fin de siècle” was not merely a phrase in Vienna; it was a lived experience, electric and anxious in equal measure.

And beneath the surface, the empire was quietly fracturing. Czechs, Slovaks, Croatians, Poles – dozens of peoples, dozens of languages, one increasingly exhausted administrative structure holding them together by sheer historical inertia and the white-whiskered authority of one very old man.

The 5 Corona was the largest silver coin in everyday Austrian circulation – weighty, authoritative, bearing the emperor’s profile with the Latin legend FRANC. IOS. I. D. G. IMP. It passed through the hands of a vast, improbable empire stretching from Bohemia to the Adriatic, from the Alps to the plains of Hungary. Everyone who used it knew the face.

Fourteen years after this coin was minted, that empire would be at war. Eighteen years after, it would cease to exist entirely. But in 1900, standing in the golden noon of the “fin de siècle”, none of that was certain yet.