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unusual facts about Coins of the Austro-Hungarian gulden


Coins of the Austro-Hungarian gulden

Austro-Hungarian gulden coins were minted following the Ausgleich with different designs for the two parts of the empire.


Austro-Hungarian gulden

In southern Germany, the word Gulden was the standard word for a major currency unit.

In 1857, the Vereinsthaler was introduced across Germany and Austria-Hungary, with a silver content of 16⅔ grams.

Battle of Ebelsberg

The French found a military chest containing $4.5 million Gulden and large quantities of food, ammunition, and 100 cannon that Maximilian failed to carry off or destroy.

Coins of the Austro-Hungarian krone

Austro-Hungarian krone coins were minted with different design (but the same technical parameters) in Austria and Hungary.

Johann Wilhelm Beyer

Within three years, he was expected to produce a number of statues of white marble vases, for an amount of 1,000 guilders per unit, excluding charges.

Johanna Bischitz von Heves

In 1867 Baron Moritz de Hirsch founded at her instance and gave into her charge a relief bureau in Budapest, as a center for Hungary, placing at her disposal a yearly sum of 120,000 gulden for distribution among the poor.

Treskilling Yellow

After it had changed hands several times, Sigmund Friedl sold it to Philipp von Ferrary in 1894, who had at that time the largest known stamp collection in the world, and paid the breathtaking sum of 4,000 Austro-Hungarian gulden.


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