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2 Florins - Francis Joseph I
| Issuer | Austrian Empire |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian gulden (decimalized, 1857-1892) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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1866 was the year Austria lost the Austro-Prussian War, a seven-week catastrophe that ended Hapsburg influence over the German states permanently. The 2 Florin denomination had been introduced in 1857 as part of Austria's adoption of the Vienna Monetary Treaty coinage system, intended to facilitate trade across the German customs union — an alliance that collapsed with the same war these coins were struck during.
KM#2231 is specific to the 1866 date; the type was discontinued shortly after as Austria reformed its coinage under mounting fiscal pressure from war indemnities owed to Prussia.