1/2 Frank - Johann II

Liechtenstein struck no coins of its own between 1862 and 1900, and again produced almost nothing until this small emergency silver series of the early 1920s. The 1924 issues — authorized under Johann II, whose reign of over 70 years remains the longest of any European monarch in recorded history — were minted at the Bern facility and served primarily to assert monetary identity rather than meet any pressing transactional need. The principality's economy was tightly bound to Switzerland by currency agreement, making these pieces functionally redundant the moment they left the press.