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2 Schilling Death of Engelbert Dollfuss

Issuer Austrian State Mint
Year 1934
Type Commemorative circulation coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage 1934 - - 1,500,000
1934 - Proof -
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Dollfuss was assassinated on July 25, 1934, when Austrian Nazis stormed the Federal Chancellery as part of a failed coup attempt. He bled to death over several hours after being shot, with the conspirators reportedly refusing him medical attention or a priest. Austria issued this commemorative within months of his death — an unusual speed that reflects how urgently the ruling Fatherland Front needed a martyrdom narrative to legitimize its authoritarian project against both the socialist left and the Nazi right.

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