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| Franz Josef 5 Korona Silver Crown coin |
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| 5 Korona Silver coin, Franz Josef Coronation |
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Obverse: Laureate bust of Franz Joseph I right.
Legend: FERENCZ JOZSEF I . K . A . CS . ÉS M . H . S . D . O . AP . KIR . 1907
Reverse: Coronation scene at Buda, showing kneeled Emperor, being coronated by Archibishop inside church.
Legend: MEGKORONÁ ZTATÁSÁNAK NEGYVENEDIK ÉVFORDULOJÁRA 1867-1907
Exergue: 5 KORONA / K.B.
Mint place: Kremnitz (KB)
Diameter: 36 mm
Weight: 24 gram of Silver (.900) 0.6944 Oz. ASW
The Korona (osztrák-magyar korona) was the official currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1892 (when it replaced the Forint as part of the adoption of the gold standard) until the dissolution of the empire in 1918.
Franz Josef I (English: Francis Joseph) Emperor of Austria, king of Hungary, (1830-1916), born in Vienna. The last significant Habsburg monarch.
Franz Josef was the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (Francis Charles), who was brother and heir of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I. Because his father renounced his right to the throne, Franz Josef became emperor when Ferdinand abdicated near the end of the revolution of 1848.
The Holy Crown of Hungary (Magyar Szent Korona, Latin: Sacra Corona), also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen, is the only crown known today with "holy" attribute.
The Hungarian coronation insignia consists of the Holy Crown, the sceptre, the orb, and the mantle. Since the twelfth century kings have been crowned with the still extant crown. The orb has the coat-of-arms of the Hungarian king Károly Róbert of Anjou (1310-1342); the other insignia can be linked to Saint Stephen.
The Crown was bound to the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, (sometimes the Sacra Corona meant the Land, the Carpathian Basin, but it also meant the coronation body, too). (see more: Doctrine of the Holy Crown) No king of Hungary was regarded as having been truly legitimate without being crowned with it. In the history of Hungary, more than fifty kings were crowned with it (the two kings who were not so crowned were Sigismund Johann II and Joseph II).