Half-kreuzer copper coin of the new currency, Vienna, 1859
A copper piece of five tenths of a kreuzer, dated 1859 with the Vienna mint letter A, from the first years of the Austrian currency of 1858, which divided the gulden into 100 kreuzer where the convention standard had 60. The value is written as a fraction, 5 over 10, inside a wreath, and the other side carries the double-headed eagle with “K.K. OESTERREICHISCHE SCHEIDEMÜNZE”. At seventeen millimetres across it was the smallest coin of the new system.
- Year
- 1859
- Source
- Wien Museum
- Credit
- Wien Museum, photo: Wien Museum
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Size
- 3482 × 1743 px