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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4515623, member: 102103&quot;]Day 62:&nbsp; Austria 6 Kreuzer, 1849 C (Prague, Bohemia)&nbsp; Billon 0.4375</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a pretty common coin--<a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces13821.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces13821.html" rel="nofollow">Numista</a> says they minted over a quarter billion of them.&nbsp; It&#039;s a fake single-year type:&nbsp; they were minted with the 1849 date intermittently from 1849-1862. The C mint mark for Prague is a little less common, and was only made from 1849-51.</p><p><br /></p><p>1849 was a momentous year for Austria.&nbsp; Germany had elected a National Assembly in the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848 and was attempting to draw up a constitution for a united government.&nbsp; The question was what role Austria should play.&nbsp; It was a multiethnic empire with a large non-German population.&nbsp; If only the German part of Austria were admitted to the new German state, Austria feared that this division would lead to nationalistic unrest in the remainder of its empire, and eventually lead to the dissolution of the Austrian Empire.&nbsp; The &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Germany" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Germany" rel="nofollow">Lesser Germany</a>&quot; faction won out in the German Assembly, and the King of Prussia was offered the position of Emperor (which he initially refused), leaving Austria mostly on the sidelines of a united German state.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1118874[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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