1000 Dobras Empress Elizabeth of Austria

São Tomé e Príncipe issued a long series of commemorative silver pieces throughout the 1990s featuring European royalty with no connection whatsoever to the island nation — a common revenue strategy among small states targeting the collector market rather than domestic circulation. Elizabeth of Austria, assassinated in Geneva in September 1898 by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, became a popular subject for commemorative issues in the late 1990s precisely because the centenary of her death coincided with sustained collector interest in the Austro-Hungarian court.