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100 Schilling Maximilian I
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter-length effigy of Emperor Maximilian I faces right, portrayed in elaborately detailed full plate armour surmounted by an imperial crown, with flowing hair visible beneath. In his left hand he holds a sceptre topped by a cross, resting it over his shoulder, while his right hand grasps a sword at his side, conveying imperial authority and martial dignity in a manner recalling late-Gothic court portraiture. The engraver's monogram TP appears at the lower centre of the field. The curved legends KAISER to the left and MAXIMILIAN I. to the right arc around the effigy along the inner border. |
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| Mintage | 1992 - Proof - 75,000 |
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Maximilian I ruled from 1508 until his death in 1519, and his reign produced one of the more consequential administrative reorganizations in Habsburg history — he restructured the imperial treasury and established the Reichskammergericht, moves that shaped Austrian fiscal governance for generations. Austria has returned to him repeatedly as a commemorative subject, and the 1992 issue falls within a long-running silver schilling series that the Mint produced through the final decade before euro conversion rendered the schilling obsolete in 2002.