REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA- FEDERAL STATE OF AUSTRIA (1919–1934)
1933 GOLD PROOFLIKE TWENTY-FIVE SCHILLING
RARE LOW MINTAGE, KEY DATE
OBV: EAGLE OF THE REPUBLIC (BUDESADLER) DISPLAYED WITH MURAL CROWN, SICKLE AND HAMMER IN TALONS AND SHIELD OF AUSTRIA ON BREAST.
REV: DENOMINATION CENTER FLANKED BY EDELWEISS SPRAYS; DATE BELOW DIVIDED BY WHEAT SPRIGS; DESIGNER/MEDALLIST NAME "HARTIG" BENEATH (FAMED ARTIST ARNOLD HARTIG WHO WORKED FOR THE AUSTRIAN MINT).
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IN 1933, THE YEAR THIS COIN WAS STRUCK, CHANCELLOR ENGELBERT DOLLFUSS AND THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL PARTY DISSOLVED THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, RENDERED PARLIAMENT NON-FUNCTIONING AND ESTABLISHED AUSTROFASCIST AUTHORITARIAN RULE IN AUSTRIA BY 1934.
DOLLFUSS' ONE-PARTY STATE, LED BY THE FATHERLAND FRONT, PUSHED AUSTRIA INTO DICTATORSHIP, AND CENTRALIZED PRO-CATHOLIC FASCISM IN OPPOSITION TO THE AUSTRIAN NAZI PARTY WHO WANTED TO MERGE AUSTRIA WITH A PREDOMINANTLY PROTESTANT NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY.
DOLFUSS WAS ASSASINATED BY THE NAZI'S THAT SAME YEAR, AND IN 1938, THE GERMAN ANSCHLUSS OF AUSTRIA WAS COMPLETE.
CONTAINS 5.8810 GRAMS OF .900 FINE GOLD (.1702 OZ AGW)
21 MM IN DIAMETER
ONLY 4,944 MINTED!
AUSTRIAN NATIONAL MINT, VIENNA
