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This is the first coin of 1000 Schillings series, issued in 1976 and commemorating 1000 years of the Babenberg Dynasty whose line merged with the Hapsburgs, which carried it into the 20th century.
Babenberg was a noble dynasty of Austrian margraves and dukes. Originally from Bamberg in the Duchy of Franconia (present-day Bavaria), the Babenbergs ruled the Imperial Margraviate of Austria from its creation in 976 AD until its elevation to a duchy in 1156, and from then until the extinction of the line in 1246, whereafter they were succeeded by the House of Habsburg.
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