CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY Robin L. Danziger ANA ......CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY 1. AUSTRIA,...
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY 1 . AUSTRIA, CORONA | KM- 2820 Diameter: 22mm | Weight: 5g, 0.8350 Silver, 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse: Franz Joseph head, right-facing | Reverse: Crown above value, date at boom, sprays flanking 2 . BULGARIA, LEV | KM- 31 Diameter: 23mm | Weight: 5g, 0.8350, Silver 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse: King Ferdinand I, leſt facing | Reverse: Denominaon above date within wreath Robin L. Danziger ANA Member # R164636 GUARANTEED GENUINE I cerfy that these coins have been inspected and are guaranteed authenc. On 11 November, 1918—on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month—the Armisce ending the Great War went into effect. The global conflict that began in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, with the assassinaon of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, ended in a railroad carriage at Compiègne with the stroke of a pen. The total number of casuales in World War I exceeded 41 million—18 million dead, and some 23 million wounded, including those blinded in chemical weapons aacks. How did the demise of an unpopular royal from a middling empire in a backwater city lead to such a profound loss of human life? Why did this happen? The answer lies in the dizzying array of internaonal treaes that bound the countries of Europe together in 1914; these so-called “entangled alliances” accelerated the spread of the war. Austro-Hungary used the assassinaon as a pretext to declare war on Serbia. Russia, which had pledged to come to Serbia’s defense, mobilized its forces to honor its commitment. Germany, an ally of Austro-Hungary, subsequently declared war on Russia, leading France and Great Britain to enter the fray in the service of a tsarist government that would itself be overthrown three years later. By the late summer of 1914, most of Europe was engaged in a war whose underlying origins remain the subject of debate to this day. For three years, the Central Powers of Germany, Bulgaria, and the Austro-Hungarian and Ooman empires fought the Allied forces of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Finland, and Canada to a bloody standsll. In 1917, the tsar abdicated, the Bolsheviks took Moscow, and Russia abruptly quit the war. The entry of the United States into the conflict that same year finally turned the de. While the Central Powers lost, no one really won. The war leſt Great Britain, once the war’s great banker, in deep financial difficulty; France, embiered and vengeful; Russia, in the hand of the Bolshevik revoluonaries; and Germany deep in debt and owing more in reparaons. By the end of the war, the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ooman empires had all collapsed, 18 million human beings lay dead, and an outbreak of the Spanish flu would claim another 50 million lives. When the smoke cleared, the appete for war in Europe had been sasfied for the foreseeable future—or so it seemed. On 11 November, 1918, no one could have foretold that an even more catastrophic war was right around the corner. 3 . CANADA, 10 CENTS | KM- 23 Diameter: 17.8mm | Weight: 2.3240g, 0.9250, Silver 0.0691 oz. ASW Obverse: Crowned bust of King George V, leſt facing |Reverse: Denominaon and date within wreath, crown above 4 . FINLAND, AS RUSSIAN GRAND DUCHY, 25 PENNIA | KM- 6.2 Diameter: 16mm | Weight: 1.2747g, 0.7500, Silver 0.0307 oz. ASW Obverse: Romanov imperial double eagle, with crown | Reverse: Denominaon and date within wreath 5 . FRANCE, 50 CENTIMES | KM- 854 Diameter: 18.1mm | Weight: 2.5g, 0.8350, Silver 0.0671 oz. ASW Obverse: Figure sowing seed | Reverse: Leafy branch dividing date and denominaon 6 . GERMANY ½ MARK | KM- 17 Diameter: 20mm | Weight: 2.77g, 0.9000 Silver, 0.0804 oz. ASW Obverse: Denominaon within wreath | Reverse: Crowned imperial eagle with shield on breast within wreath 7 . GREAT BRITAIN, 6 PENCE | KM- 815 Diameter: 19.5mm | Weight: 2.8276g, 0.925 Silver, 0.0841 oz. ASW Obverse: George V head, leſt facing | Reverse: Lion atop crown dividing date 8 . HUNGARY, KORONA | KM-484/492 Diameter: 22mm | Weight: 5g, 0.8350 Silver, 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse: Franz Joseph head, right-facing | Reverse: Crown of St. Stephen within wreath 9 . ITALY, 1 LIRA | KM-484/492 Diameter: 27mm | Weight: 5.000g, 0.8350 Silver, 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse: King Victor Emanuel II, right facing | Reverse: Quadriga with standing female 10 . RUSSIA, 20 KOPEKS | KM-Y22A Diameter: 22mm | Weight: 3.5992g, 0.5000 Silver, 0.0579 oz. ASW Obverse: Crowned double-headed Romanov eagle| Reverse: Crown above date and value within wreath 11 . SERBIA, 50 PARA | KM-24 Diameter: 21.8mm | Weight: 2.5g, 0.0671 Silver, 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse: King Peter I, right facing | Reverse: Crown above value, date within wreath 12 . UNITED STATES, 10 CENTS, “MERCURY DIME” | KM-140 Diameter: 17.8mm | Weight: 2.5g, 0.9000 Silver, 0.0723 oz. ASW Obverse: Liberty head in winged cap, leſt facing | Reverse: Fasces and olive branch THIS REMARKABLE COLLECTION CONTAINS 12 SILVER COINS THAT WERE IN CIRCULATION ON 11 NOVEMBER, 1918 .
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY Robin L. Danziger ANA ......CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY 1. AUSTRIA, CORONA | KM-2820 Diameter: 22mm | Weight: 5g, 0.8350 Silver, 0.1342 oz. ASW Obverse:
