1892–1919 European Silver Coins of Europe’s Last Royal Houses 3-pc Set

The Last Coins Of Vanished European Royalty

1918 marked the end of the First World War and the fall of three of the oldest and most influential royal houses in Europe: the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, and the Romanovs. Combined, the three families accounted for some 23 centuries of dynastic rule. This remarkable three-piece set consists of coins from each:

• THE AUSTRIAN CORONA – This coin was struck in 83.5% fine silver and displays one of the key figures in the lead-up to the war, Austria’s Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef I, who was also the king of Hungary, Bohemia, and monarch of many other states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When his nephew and presumptive heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 by a Serbian separatist, it was the flashpoint that started “The War to End All Wars.” One of the longest reigning monarchs in modern history, Franz Joseph sat upon the throne of Austria for 68 years. But when his nephew was assassinated, he declared war on Serbia. This led to Russia joining the fray on Serbia’s side thus activating a system of alliances made between nearly all the nations of Europe which resulted in World War I. Franz Joseph would not live to see the end of the war or the dissolution of the Austria-Hungary Empire, dying at the age of 86 in 1916.
• THE GERMAN HALF MARK – Throughout its 47 years of existence, the German Empire was an industrial, technological, and scientific giant with an economy that was the largest in Europe and second in the world only to the United States. That all came crashing down in World War I, a conflict that saw not only the abdication of Germany’s arrogant and militaristic Kaiser Wilhelm II, but the abolishment of the country’s constitutional monarchy altogether—thus ending the Hohenzollern Dynasty. Those turbulent years witnessed the last silver coins issued by the German Empire, among them was this Half Mark struck in highly pure 90% fine silver. By war’s end, the German Empire had collapsed, its leaders forced to accept a harsh a peace treaty that planted the seeds for an even worse conflict that would spring forth just 20 years later: World War II. This was one of the coins circulating at that time, each featuring the traditional German Eagle.
• THE RUSSIAN 15 KOPECKS – In 1918, the Bolsheviks overthrew the government of Russian Czar Nicholas II. Soon after taking Nicholas prisoner, they convicted him of crimes against the state and he, his wife, their five children, family doctor, maid and cook were herded into a small room where they were unceremoniously executed under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin in Moscow. The purge didn’t end with the murder of the Romanov family. The Bolsheviks wanted a clean break with the past and to that end they sought to scrub all traces of Imperial Russia from the history books. When you want to erase someone from history, however, it takes a lot of work. So, in addition to overthrowing the government and murdering Nicholas and his family, the Bolsheviks attempted to destroy anything and everything bearing the Czar’s image—and that included this 15 Kopeks coin struck in 50% silver that bears the Romanov family crest.

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The coins available in this set were all struck between 1892 and 1919 and will come housed in a beautiful wood presentation box and accompanied by an informative story card that details the history of these three royal houses. Limited availability, so act now; click this 1892–1919 European Silver Coins of Europe’s Last Royal Houses Three-Piece Set to your cart right now!