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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3068968, member: 46237&quot;]Didn&#039;t mean to confuse anyone with my posts. I was commenting on the iconography on the OP&#039;s medal, and showing additional pieces with the same Austro-Hungarian iconography.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1914 krone I posted was a pattern submitted to the Austrian mint by Karl Goetz. Around that time the mint was playing with the idea of changing the corona, and was doing trials in aluminum. Ultimately the corona remained unchanged and was discontinued after 1916 due to the death of Franz Joseph.</p><p><br /></p><p>Austria did issue a krone and 1/2 krone under Franz Joseph, but they were gold coins issued very early in his reign. In 1892 when Austria-Hungary adopted the gold standard, a new crown was introduced as a small silver coin, about the size of the 1/4 florin (or a US quarter). Instead of calling it a krone (German), the Austrian type was called the corona/e (Latin) and in Hungary it was called the korona (as Hungarian is a phonetic language).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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