1908 AUSTRIA 100 CORONA GOLD COIN. LADY IN THE CLOUDS. CERTIFIED BY NGC MINT STATE 60. ISSUE CELEBRATING THE DIAMOND JUBILEE (60TH ANNIVERSARY) OF THE EMPEROR’S REIGN. OBV: FRANZ JOSEPH HEAD RIGHT. REV: RECLINING ON BED OF CLOUDS, THE RADIANT FEMALE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE (THE MODEL WAS SAID TO BE FRANZ JOSEPH’S BELOVED MISTRESS AND CONFIDANT, THE ACTRESS KATHARINA SCHRATT, “THE UNCROWNED EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA”) OF FAME OR GLORY (OR THE PERSONIFICATION ÖSTERREICH) WITH HER LEFT ARM RESTING ON SHIELD WITH THE CROWNED IMPERIAL DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE AND HER RIGHT ARM OUTSRETCHED WITH LAUREL WREATH IN HAND DIVIDING DATES 1848/1908; DENOMINATION AROUND EDGE BEHIND FIGURE; LATIN LEGEND. DUODECIM LUSTRIS GLORIOSE PERACTIS. 12 LUSTRA- A MEASURE OF TIME OF. ALSO MEANS’TO OFFER A PROPITIATION’. CONTAINS 33.8753 GRAMS OF. 37 MM IN DIAMETER. A CONSERATIVE REACTIONARY, FRANZ JOSEPH RESISTED CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN HIS DOMAINS, ALTHOUGH HIS UNCLE, FERDINAND I, HAD ABDICATED IN HIS FAVOR TO HELP END THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848. THE DUAL MONARCHY OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY WAS FORMED IN 1867, GIVING HUNGARY MORE AUTONOMY, BUT THROUGHOUT FRANZ JOSEPH’S REIGN, THE HABSBURG EMPIRE WAS THREATENED BY SEPARATISTS AND REGIONAL NATIONALISM. HIS PERSONAL LIFE WAS MARKED BY TRAGEDY, INCLUDING THE EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD OF HIS BROTHER, THE EMPEROR MAXIMILLIAN OF MEXICO, THE ASSASSINATION OF HIS WIFE THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH STABBED BY AN ANARCHIST IN GENEVA IN 1898 (THE EMPEROR ESCAPED A SIMILAR ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN 1853), AND THE SUICIDE OF HIS SON AND HEIR, CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF, IN 1889. THE YEAR THIS COIN WAS STRUCK, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ANNEXED BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA IN THE BALKANS. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY HAD OCCUPIED THE REGION SINCE 1878, BUT ANNEXATION CREATED THE BOSNIAN CRISIS WHICH ALIENATED THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, THE KINGDOM OF SERBIA AND CONTRIBUTED TO ESCALATIONS WHICH WOULD LEAD TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR. FRANZ JOSEPH’S 68 YEAR REIGN IS THE THIRD LONGEST RECORDED REIGN OF ANY EUROPEAN MONARCH THUS FAR. PLEASE BE PATIENT AS THIS IS A HARD TIME FOR EVERYONE AND PACKAGES ARE GETTING DELIVERED, JUST NOT IN THE NORMAL TIMEFRAME. PLEASE INQUIRE IF INTERESTED. We cannot declare any package as a “gift”, sampleetc. The item “1908 GOLD AUSTRIA 100 CORONA LADY IN CLOUDS COIN NGC MINT STATE 60″ is in sale since Thursday, May 14, 2020. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Gold”. The seller is “rarecoincollector” and is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Austria
- Certification: NGC
- Grade: MS 60
- Year: 1908
- Circulated/Uncirculated: MS 60
- Composition: Gold
