Items from the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire follows Austria progression from medieval duchy and later archduchy, to the period of time when Austria became Austrian Empire, an european great power. Most of its existence, Austria and its constituent parts, were under the dominion of the House of Habsburg. The conglomeration issued various thaler coins in concordant with the rest of the HRE, which it dominated by the 15th century. Various wars of succession throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries resulted in Habsburg power being limited to the Austrian possessions, which had grown to include many non-Germanic lands. The Empire, formalized in 1804, adopted a decimal version of the Gulden (adopted 1754) in 1857. The 1867 compromise saw the now Austria-Hungary dualized, with the introduction of a new kroner currency in 1892, at a 1:1 rate against the Hungarian florin (forint) and the Austrian korona, a par set since the Hungarian satellite currency's introduction in 1857. The unstable empire was rocked by ethnic crises leading up to the outbreak of WWI in 1914, eventually ending in it's dissolution and implosion in 1918, setting up the new Austrian Republic and other central European states. Read more

External links: Wikidata (Q699964), Wikipedia

See also: Austria, Austrian States, Czechoslovakia, German States, Austrian Netherlands, Austrian Partition of Poland

• Pfennig (800-1500)
• Thaler (1520-1754)
• Kipper-kreuzer (1620-1623)
• Gulden (1754-1857)
• Austro-Hungarian gulden (decimalized, 1857-1892)
• Crown (1892-1918)

Austro-Hungarian gulden (decimalized, 1857-1892)

100 Kreuzer = 1 Gulden

¼ Florin - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.520) • 5.345 g • ⌀ 23 mm
KM# 2215, N# 33516

¼ Florin - Francis Joseph I
1867-1871
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.520) • 5.345 g • ⌀ 23 mm
KM# 2216, N# 33517

¼ Florin - Francis Joseph I
1872-1875
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.520) • 5.345 g • ⌀ 23 mm
KM# 2217, N# 33518

1 Florin - Francis Joseph I
1857-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 12.34 g • ⌀ 29 mm
KM# 2219, N# 7004

1 Gulden
1866
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
123 × 79 mm
KK Banknoten# 101, Pick Au# 150, P# A150, Adamo MBK1# G97, N# 307815

1 Florin - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 12.34 g • ⌀ 29 mm
KM# 2220, N# 33519

1 Florin - Francis Joseph I
1867-1872
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 12.34 g • ⌀ 29 mm
KM# 2221, N# 31958

1 Florin - Francis Joseph I
1872-1892
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 12.34 g • ⌀ 29.24 mm
KM# 2222, Kahnt/Schön# 149, N# 4726

1 Florin - Francis Joseph I (Pribram Mine)
1875
Coins › Non-circulating coins: Pribram Mine - 1000 Meters Depth reached
Silver (.900) • 12.34 g • ⌀ 29 mm
X# 2, N# 33434

1 Gulden - Francis Joseph I
1882
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
120 × 78 mm
KK Banknoten# 108, P# 157, A153, Adamo MBK1# G125, N# 204562

1 Gulden - Francis Joseph I
1888
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
105 × 69 mm
KK Banknoten# 110, Pick Au# 159, P# A156, Adamo MBK1# G126, N# 212535

1 Vereinsthaler - Francis Joseph I
1857-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 18.5186 g • ⌀ 33 mm
KM# 2244, Dav ECT# 21, N# 27536

1 Vereinsthaler - Francis Joseph I
1866-1868
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 18.5186 g • ⌀ 33 mm
KM# 2245, Dav ECT# 26, N# 22598

Shooting Taler - Francis Joseph I (Third German Shooting Festival)
1868
Exhibition, fair and festival medals › Shooting medals and thalers: Third German Shooting Festival
Silver • 16.90 g • ⌀ 33.5 mm
Her# 482, Jaeg 3 Habs# 371, Hauser 1# 5037, X# M8, Thun# 461, Dav ECT# 28, Slg. Wurzbach# 9342, Slg. Peltzer# 1923, N# 18980

1 Gedenkthaler - Francis Joseph I (Opening of the Carl Ludwig House)
1877
Coins › Non-circulating coins: Opening of the Carl-Ludwig-House
Silver • 18.5 g
Her# 828, Jaeg 3 Habs# 371, Thun# 462, Dav ECT# 30, N# 354670

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I
1859-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g • ⌀ 36 mm
KM# 2230, Dav ECT# 22, N# 33642

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g • ⌀ 37 mm
KM# 2231, Dav ECT# 25, N# 33641

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I
1867-1872
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g • ⌀ 36 mm
KM# 2232, Dav ECT# 25A, N# 33527

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I
1872-1892
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g • ⌀ 36 mm
KM# 2233, Dav ECT# 27, N# 33640

2 Gulden - Francis Joseph I (Silver Wedding Jubilee)
1879
Coins › Non-circulating coins: Franz Joseph I - Silver Wedding Jubilee
Silver (.900) • 24.7 g • ⌀ 36 mm
X# M5, Her# 824, Dav ECT# 31, N# 33587

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I (Shooting Thaler)
1880
Exhibition, fair and festival medals › Shooting medals and thalers: First Federal Shooting Festival
Silver (.900) • 22.15 g • ⌀ 36 mm
Hauser 1# 5101, Slg. Peltzer# 1932, X# M6, Thun# 465, Dav GT III# 32, N# 22597

2 Florins - Francis Joseph I (400th Anniversary of the Austrian Thaler)
1884
Coins › Non-circulating coins: 400th Anniversary of the Austrian Thaler
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g • ⌀ 36 mm
Her# 829, Jaeg 3 Habs# 371 II, Thun# 466, N# 359175

2 Gulden - Francis Joseph I (Kuttenberg mines)
1887
Coins › Circulating commemorative coins: For the reopening of the Kuttenburg silver mines
Silver (.900) • 24.69 g
KM# XM7, Diet# 1169, Her# 825, Dav ECT# 33, N# 163009

2 Vereinsthaler - Francis Joseph I (South Austrian Railways)
1857
Coins › Non-circulating coins: Completion of the South Austrian Railways
Silver (.900) • 37.0371 g • ⌀ 41 mm
X# M10, Her# 821, Dav ECT# 20, N# 15153

2 Vereinsthaler - Francis Joseph I
1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 37.0371 g • ⌀ 41 mm
KM# 2249, Dav ECT# 23, N# 33643

2 Vereinsthaler - Francis Joseph I
1866-1867
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Silver (.900) • 37.0371 g • ⌀ 41 mm
KM# 2250, Dav ECT# 24, N# 33410

4 Florins / 10 Francs - Francis Joseph I
1870-1892
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 3.2258 g • ⌀ 19 mm
KM# 2260, Fr# 503, 503R, N# 23664

1 Ducat - Francis Joseph I
1860-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 3.4909 g • ⌀ 21 mm
KM# 2264, Her# 105-128, N# 22709

1 Ducat - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 3.4909 g • ⌀ 19.8 mm
KM# 2265, Her# 129-132, N# 33646

1 Ducat - Francis Joseph I
1867-1872
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 3.4909 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 2266, N# 33647

1 Ducat - Francis Joseph I
1872-1915
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 3.49 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 2267, Schön# 1, Fr# 493-495, N# 26247

½ Krone - Francis Joseph I
1858-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 5.5555 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 2251, N# 33522

½ Krone - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 5.5555 g • ⌀ 20 mm
KM# 2252, Her# 228, N# 33526

5 Gulden
1859
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
130 × 108 mm
KK Banknoten# 102/94, Pick Au# 144, P# A88, Adamo MBK1# G91, N# 308340

5 Gulden
1866
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
136 × 91 mm
KK Banknoten# 102, P# 151, A151, Adamo MBK1# G98, N# 203435

5 Gulden - Francis Joseph I
1881
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
140 × 94 mm
KK Banknoten# 107, Pick Au# 156, P# A154, Adamo MBK1# G127, N# 308301

8 Florins / 20 Francs - Francis Joseph I
1870-1892
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 6.4516 g • ⌀ 21 mm
KM# 2269, Fr# 502R, N# 17723

1 Krone - Francis Joseph I
1858-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 11.111 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 2253, N# 33645

1 Krone - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.900) • 11.111 g • ⌀ 24 mm
KM# 2255, N# 33644

10 Gulden
1863
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
142 × 115 mm
KK Banknoten# 99, Pick Au# 148, P# A89, Adamo MBK1# G95, N# 218779

10 Gulden
1880
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
132 × 90 mm
KK Banknoten# 104, P# 1, Adamo MBK1# G128, N# 217791

4 Ducats - Francis Joseph I
1860-1865
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 13.9636 g • ⌀ 39.5 mm
KM# 2272, Fr# 485, Her# 12, N# 33650

4 Ducats - Francis Joseph I
1866
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 13.9636 g • ⌀ 39.5 mm
KM# 2273, Her# 20, Fr# 486a, N# 33651

4 Ducats - Francis Joseph I
1867-1872
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 13.9636 g • ⌀ 39.5 mm
KM# 2274, Fr# 484, N# 33652

50 Gulden
1866
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
196 × 132 mm
KK Banknoten# 103a, Pick Au# 152, P# A152, Adamo MBK1# G99, N# 308334

50 Gulden
1880
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
171 × 111 mm
KK Banknoten# 109, Pick/Rixen# 158, P# A155, N# 308282

4 Ducats - Francis Joseph I
1872-1915 (1872-1914)
Coins › Standard circulation coins
Gold (.986) • 13.9636 g • ⌀ 40 mm
KM# 2276, Her# 27-70, Fr# 487-488, N# 15156

4 Ducats - Francis Joseph I (Vienna Shooting Festival)
1873
Exhibition, fair and festival medals › Shooting medals and thalers: Vienna Shooting Festival to the 25th Reign Jubilee
Gold (.986) • 14 g
Her# 819, Zöttl# 1895, KM# M12, N# 324319

100 Gulden
1858
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
205 × 130 mm
KK Banknoten# 101/93, Pick Au# 142, P# A86, Adamo MBK1# G89, N# 308423

100 Gulden
1880
Banknotes › Standard circulation banknotes
153 × 107 mm
KK Banknoten# 105, P# 2, 154, N# 217792