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5 Korona Karolus I

Issuer Hungary
Year 1909
Type Fantasy coin
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The 5 Korona of Karl I — struck under Franz Joseph I, not his successor, despite the "Karolus" nomenclature causing persistent catalog confusion — was issued in the final decade of the Austro-Hungarian monetary union, when the dual monarchy's finances were already strained by imperial overextension. The Vienna Mint produced this denomination for circulation in both halves of the empire, with Hungarian-issue pieces distinguished by their Budapest provenance and subject to separate mintage authorization from the Hungarian parliament under the 1867 Compromise arrangements.

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