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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3432431, member: 87809&quot;]<a href="http://@panzerman" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://@panzerman" rel="nofollow">@panzerman</a> Awesome coin !!! Congrats!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you sure it is Franz II? According to </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.holyromanempireassociation.com/list-of-holy-roman-emperors.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.holyromanempireassociation.com/list-of-holy-roman-emperors.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.holyromanempireassociation.com/list-of-holy-roman-emperors.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Francis II (German: Franz II., Erwählter Römischer Kaiser) (12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1804, he had founded the Austrian Empire and became Francis I (Franz I.), the first Emperor of Austria (Kaiser von Österreich), ruling from 1804 to 1835&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As your coin was minted in 1831 and has the obverse legend &quot;FRANCISCUS I D·G·AVSTRIAE IMPERATOR&quot;, which translates to Franciscus I, by the grace of God, Emperor of Austria, in 1831 he was no longer Holy Roman Emperor but Franz I Emperor of Austria.</p><p>The legend on the reverse HVN·BOH·LOMB·ET VEN·GAL·LOD·IL·REX·A·A· translates to &quot;ever venerable, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Lombardy and Venetia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mintmark A is Vienna as you can see here on page 105:</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0871843080" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0871843080" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0871843080</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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