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Austria 1928 2 Schillings Brilliant Uncirculated (MS63) DOD
Austria 1928 2 Schillings Brilliant Uncirculated (MS63) DOD
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Austria 1928 2 Schillings Brilliant Uncirculated (MS63) DOD
Between the World Wars, Austria, like Germany, was changing in the face of immense hardship. The 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye had stripped over 60% of its territory, including Bohemia, Moravia, and the southern half of the Tyrolean crownland, reducing the population from 50 million to about 6.5 million. Famously, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau described the new Austria as "what is left over" after the Allies had carved it up, and those leftovers were economically unable on their own. Most industrial hubs and agricultural lands were gone; there was an attempt to create a series of ethnostates for the Czechs, Slovaks, and Slavs that only broke apart integrated communities. Like Germany, Austria suffered extreme hyperinflation, which eventually led to the adoption of an entirely new currency in the form of the schilling. Also like Germany, it saw an explosion of social progressivism, especially in Vienna, which taxed the wealthy to funnel improvements into healthcare, public education, and sanitation. This caused a cultural split between left-wing, democratic city life and the conservative rural population that rejected secularism on principle. This 2 schilling coin represents a tumultuous time in Austrian history.
Between the World Wars, Austria, like Germany, was changing in the face of immense hardship. The 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye had stripped over 60% of its territory, including Bohemia, Moravia, and the southern half of the Tyrolean crownland, reducing the population from 50 million to about 6.5 million. Famously, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau described the new Austria as "what is left over" after the Allies had carved it up, and those leftovers were economically unable on their own. Most industrial hubs and agricultural lands were gone; there was an attempt to create a series of ethnostates for the Czechs, Slovaks, and Slavs that only broke apart integrated communities. Like Germany, Austria suffered extreme hyperinflation, which eventually led to the adoption of an entirely new currency in the form of the schilling. Also like Germany, it saw an explosion of social progressivism, especially in Vienna, which taxed the wealthy to funnel improvements into healthcare, public education, and sanitation. This caused a cultural split between left-wing, democratic city life and the conservative rural population that rejected secularism on principle. This 2 schilling coin represents a tumultuous time in Austrian history.
