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2 Schillings Ignaz Seipel
| Issuer | Austrian State Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 1933 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | IGNAZ SEIPEL 1876 - 1932 |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Ignaz Seipel, the Catholic prelate-turned-chancellor who dominated Austrian politics through the 1920s, had died in August 1932. This commemorative followed within months — unusually fast for a memorial coin issue — almost certainly driven by the political urgency of the Dollfuss government, which was in the process of dismantling parliamentary democracy and found Seipel's clerical-conservative legacy ideologically useful. The coin appeared the same year Dollfuss suspended the Austrian parliament.