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1000 Dobras Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Gold
| Issuer | Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Diameter | 13.92 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA DEMOCRÁTICA DE S.TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE 1000 DOBRAS 1998 |
| Reverse description | A draped bust of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known as Sissi) faces slightly left, her hair elaborately styled with floral adornments and flowing loose at the sides, rendered in fine relief. Her facsimile signature appears in cursive script across the lower portion of the bust. The circular legend ELISABETE - IMPERATRIZ DA ÁUSTRIA arcs along the upper periphery, while the birth and death years 1837 - 1898 are inscribed vertically along the right field, commemorating the centenary of her death. |
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Part of a wave of late-1990s gold miniatures issued by small-nation central banks with no particular connection to their subjects — São Tomé e Príncipe had nothing to do with the Habsburg court. Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated in Geneva in September 1898 by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni, and the centenary of her death provided the commercial hook. These issues were produced for the collector and bullion-gift market, not domestic circulation, and the Dobra denomination was nominal at best.