Austria 100 Schilling Silver Coin 1992 Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Obverse: Two seated figures facing each other (Archduke Maximilian of Austria and his wife Mary of Burgundy), ribbon between heads, value at bottom
Reverse: Half-length figure of Maximillian I, with crown and armor, right
Edge Description: Reeded
Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9000
Weight: 20 gramm
ASW: 0.5787oz
Diameter: 34mm
Maximilian's marriage policy culminated in his son, Philip I., the Fair (1478-1506). We see Philip with his beloved wife Joanna of Castile, who in his early death in derangement. For this, the famous slogan "TU FELIX AUSTRIA NUBE" Philip was father of Charles V, the ancestor of the Spanish Habsburg line.
Maximilian with scepter and sword. The fine features suggest that the great Habsburg was not only the "last knight" but also an artistic sensibility. The inner part is a classic severity, yet is modern in its simple, clean lines to.
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans (also known as King of the Germans) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky. He had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from c. 1483. He expanded the influence of the House of Habsburg through war and his marriage in 1477 to Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of Burgundy, but he also lost the Austrian territories in today's Switzerland to the Swiss Confederacy.
Through marriage of his son Philip the Handsome to eventual queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian helped to establish the Habsburg dynasty in Spain which allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making Charles V the first de jure King of Spain. Since his father Philip died in 1506, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.
Mary (13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), Duchess of Burgundy, reigned over the Low Countries from 1477 until her death. As the only child of Charles the Bold and his wife Isabella of Bourbon, she was the heiress to the vast, and vastly wealthy, Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477, and was accordingly often referred to as Mary the Rich.