Austria issued this coin to mark the 125th anniversary of the Austrian federal gendarmerie, founded in 1849 under Franz Joseph I as a militarized rural police force modeled closely on the French Gendarmerie Nationale. The gendarmerie remained a separate institution from the urban Bundespolizei until 2005, when both forces were merged into a single national police body — meaning this coin commemorates an organization that no longer exists in the form being honored.
Austria issued this coin to mark the 125th anniversary of the Austrian federal gendarmerie, founded in 1849 under Franz Joseph I as a militarized rural police force modeled closely on the French Gendarmerie Nationale. The gendarmerie remained a separate institution from the urban Bundespolizei until 2005, when both forces were merged into a single national police body — meaning this coin commemorates an organization that no longer exists in the form being honored.