1082622 | AUSTRIA. Franz Joseph I. (Emperor, 1848-1916). 1868 AR Thaler. PCGS MS62. By Johann Schwerdtner (Obv.) & Wenzel Seidan (Rev.). Vienna. Edge: Plain. 33mm. 16.88gm. III DEUTSCHES BUNDES SCHIESSEN WIEN. Crowned Imperial eagle / WIR WOLLEN SEIN EIN EINIG VOLK VON BRUDERN. Allegorical standing figure beneath a tree hanging a shield of arms; signed below. KM X-M8; Dav.-28; Herinek 482.

For the Third German Federal Shooting Competition in Vienna 1868.


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The reverse legend is taken from Schiller's "William Tell" who himself took it from the Rütlischwur, a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy dated 1307.