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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4433224, member: 102103&quot;]Day 42:&nbsp; Austrian Empire 20 Kreuzer, Francis I, 1807</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; &quot;FRANCISCVS I.D.G&nbsp; AVST.IMPERATOR&quot; (Francis I, by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria)&nbsp; Reverse:&nbsp; &quot;HVN.BOH.GAL.REX.A.A.&nbsp; D.LO.SAL.WIRG.1807&quot; (King of Hungary, Bohemia and Galicia, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lodomeria, Salzburg and Wurzburg)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109641[/ATTACH]</p><p>There was a lot of stuff going on in the world in 1807!&nbsp; The Holy Roman Empire had been dissolved one year earlier.&nbsp; HRE Francis II resigned his position, and declared himself Emperor Francis I of Austria.&nbsp; (Previously, the ruler of Austria had only ranked as an archduke.)&nbsp; Austria had lost the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleonic France with the defeat at Austerlitz in 1805.&nbsp; With Napoleon setting up the Confederation of the Rhine of the French-aligned German states to rival the Holy Roman Empire, Francis feared Napoleon might get himself elected as Holy Roman Emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Francis seems to have been more skilled diplomatically than militarily, and managed to hang on to rule in spite of multiple military defeats.&nbsp; In 1807, Austria sat out the War of the Fourth Coalition, which was ongoing, but would join the Fifth coalition in 1809 for another crushing defeat.&nbsp; As part of the peace negotiations, Emperor Francis married off his daughter, Marie Louis, to Napoleon.&nbsp; She would become the mother of Napoleon II, who &quot;ruled&quot; at age 4 for a few weeks in 1815 after Napoleon&#039;s forced resignation following Waterloo.&nbsp; Oddly, Emperor Francis was also the nephew of Marie Antoinette, the executed Queen consort of Louis XVI.&nbsp; Francis managed to rule Austria until his death in 1835.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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