2 Schillings Ignaz Seipel

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.