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2,5 Euro - Centenary of death of Empress Sissi
| Issuer | Austria |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) facing slightly left, wearing an ornate crown and a jewelled choker necklace, her hair styled in an elaborate braided coiffure with flowing locks. The portrait is rendered in high relief in a neoclassical style. The legend '100. TODESTAG KAISERIN SISSI' arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by a beaded border, while the date of her death '10. IX. 1898' appears in the right field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100. TODESTAG KAISERIN SISSI 10. IX 1898 |
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Elisabeth of Austria died on September 10, 1898, stabbed with a sharpened needle file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni on the shores of Lake Geneva — a killing so improbable that she initially didn't realize she had been fatally wounded and walked back to her steamship unassisted. Austria issued this coin for the centenary of that death, not her birth, which gives the commemorative an unusually somber premise by any standard.