1 Ducat - Franz Joseph I

Features

Obverse

Laureate head of Franz Joseph, facing right,with thick whiskers.

Lettering: FRANC IOS I D G AUSTRIAE IMPERATOR

Engraver: Friedrich Leisek

Reverse

Arms of Austria superimposed upon a crowned double-headed Imperial eagle.

Lettering: HUNGAR BOHEM GAL LOD ILL REX A A 1915

Engraver: Friedrich Leisek

Edge

Reeded

Comments

The ducat with date 1915 is still officially minted by the Austrian mint. Mintage is as follow, but the year can't be distinguished:

Source Münze Österreich - Münze Club

In the early 20th century, Balkan countries used Austrian ducat coins as bullion reserves. It is widely understood that the various states further marked their bullion supply with small countermarks (a sword for Bosnia, a crown for Bulgaria, a grain ear for Serbia and an eagle for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes), but those marks are just a designation of a verified fineness of the gold and not "intended to refer to a geographic area".

Some known countermarked dates according to Aleksandar N. Brzić are:

• 1873 Sword Rare
  
• 1882 Sword Common
  
• 1884 Sword Rare
  
• 1886 Sword Rare
  
• 1895 Sword Rare
  
• 1897 Sword Rare
  
• 1910 Sword Rare
  
• 1912 Sword Rare
  
• 1913 Sword Common
  
• 1914 Sword Common
  
• 1915 Sword Very Common
  

See also

• 1 Dukat - Aleksandar I

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