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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2941606, member: 46237&quot;]Here&#039;s a new pickup for my Austrian Occupation of Hungary (1849-1867) type set:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Austria 1866B 1 Florin</b></p><p>KM-2220</p><p>12.34g, 0.900 silver, 29mm</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]716398[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a <i>scarce</i> one-year type with a mintage of only 358,843, as the legends on the reverse changed the following year to reflect the territories lost by Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. This was struck at the Hungarian mint of Kormocbanya (Austria mint mark B during the occupation period after Hungary&#039;s failed War of Independence in 1849).</p><p><br /></p><p>Franz Joseph I was crowned King of Hungary the year after this was struck, in 1867, to form the Austro-Hungarian empire, and Hungary started minting their own circulating types again in 1868. Almost no Hungarian coinage was minted in 1867 (only 2 circulating types, one of which was a new florin with the revised reverse legends), with the Vienna mint striking some Hungarian issues that year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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