Silver Kilo 2016 Franz Joseph I and Elizabeth of Bavaria, Coin from Tuvalu - detailed information

The Tuvaluan Dollar is the currency of Tuvalu - a small nation in the Pacific Ocean. Tuvalu has never had banknotes of its own, and has been issuing coins since 1976; these circulate together with coins of the Australian Dollar, which is also legal tender in the country, and to which the Tuvaluan Dollar is pegged.

Some foreign mints also issue a large variety of non-circulating legal tender coins under the authority of Tuvalu, including in the very large one kilogram (1kg) of silver format. These are "Non-Circulating Legal Tender" (NCLT) and not bullion, as they are priced at a premium and are targeted at collectors who appreciate them for their artistic merit and collectable value and not just for their precious metal content.

This silver one-kilo coin struck by the Czech Mint features Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

The Mint says about it:
100 years ago, Emperor Franz Joseph I died at the Schönbrunn Palace. With the reign of the longest-reigning Hapsburg Emperor are associated many of the key events that influenced the current form of European nations including the Czechs and Slovaks and thus the Czech Mint dedicates to him a special issue minted from one kilogram of pure silver.

The Austrian monarch lived to the age of 86 years, of which for 68 he was the head of the empire, for which he lived and breathed. "Wake me up at half past three, I did not manage to finish all the work," were the last words of the man who once described himself as civil servant. An extremely effective management of his vast empire took him most of the time, and in his life he had therefore little joy. One of them was the wedding with the Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, which everyone called Sissi. Although they spontaneously fell in love, their relationship cooled over time. The culprit was the pressure of the imperial court. The young Empress, unlike her husband, barely tolerated the tragic fate of their children and their totally different natures. Although Sissi was un-supportive during the life of Francis Joseph, he never stopped loving her. Her death at the hands of an Italian anarchist hit him hard and he never fully recovered from it.