2 Gulden - Francis Joseph I Silver Wedding Jubilee

Franz Joseph and Elisabeth had been married twenty-five years by 1879, though the union had long since become a matter of dynastic obligation rather than domestic comfort. Elisabeth spent much of the decade abroad, famously avoiding Vienna for months at a time. The jubilee was the court's occasion, not the couple's.

The coin was a commemorative issue rather than a circulating piece, struck for presentation and sale to the public — a practice the Vienna Mint had refined into a minor revenue stream by the 1870s. The X# prefix in the reference confirms its non-circulation status.