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KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 22, 2017 3:26PM in World & Ancient Coins Forum


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  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,154 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No idea unless that is a Russian imperial eagle, in which case it is 2 kopecks.

    Or maybe Prussian?

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Austria 2 Heller bronze. Very common.

    Austria-Hungary was a dual monarchy and thus the two-headed eagle.

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 22, 2017 3:27PM

    Found it.

    2 HELLER FRANT. JOS. I. 1912

    tisknout obrázek

    Mince / MINCE RAKOUSKO - UHERSKO / FRANTIŠEK JOSEF I. (1848-1916)

    Katalog č.: 35V-18

Rok: 1912

Materiál: měď (Cu)

Stav: 0/0
Panovník: FRANTIŠEK JOSEF I. (1848-1916)
Stát: Rakousko-Uhersko

    Cena: 180,00 Kč Sazba DPH: zvláštní režim
    6,75 €
    $7.37

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    25 cents is closer.

  • numismagramnumismagram Posts: 148 ✭✭✭

    Agree with the previous info; here is the KM listing and data:

    https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/austria-2-heller-km-2801-1892-1915-cuid-1044332-duid-1220397

    Jeremy Bostwick

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  • pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭

    Is this one government copying another?

    Paul
  • numismagramnumismagram Posts: 148 ✭✭✭

    The double-headed eagle motif was fairly common across European kingdoms and empires; the Austro-Hungarian Empire was really just the last vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire following its dissolution during the Napoleonic wars. As mentioned in a comment above, the Russian empire also employed a double-headed eagle during its heyday. The parts that would change would be the coat-of-arms on the eagle's breast; that would generally be indicative of the issuing authority or mint.

    Jeremy Bostwick

    For exceptional works of medallic art, check out our current inventory at Numismagram!

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 23, 2017 9:53AM

    Austria-Hungary might have been more accurately depicted by an eagle with ONE head and TWO bodies, but how the heck do you depict that?

  • SteveBellSteveBell Posts: 58 ✭✭✭

    Really cool coin.The Austro-hungarian empire ceased to exist after the first world war.The story and history behind this coin would have sold me,common or not.

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a couple of very decent One Corona and Two Corona silver coins of Austria stuck in the old wool sock with my gold coins. These are a reminder of the good coins that the people of Austria had before the War and the hyperinflation - and are a historical reminder of why you should own some gold.

    Austria had a hyperinflation that matched Germany's experience, at much the same time.

    I have a few nice German Empire one mark silver coins stuck in the old wool sock for the same reason.

  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 23, 2017 10:58AM

    Albania is another:

    In fact when Ahmet Zogolli went to stylize himself as Zog (or Zogu), zog is the Albanian word for 'bird'.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The two headed eagle was used during the Roman-Byzantine Empire to signify their dominance in the east and west

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