Watch List notes:

Foreign Medals, Mexico/Italy, Austria, Maximilian I (1864-1867), the erection of his monument and statue in Trieste, copper medal, 1875, by J. Tautenhayn, central medallion with bust of Maximilian I l., border of allegorical representations, rev. view of the monument and statue, 70mm. (Horsky 3986; Mont.2740), virtually mint state
The quixotic Maximilian, younger brother of the Emperor Franz Joseph I, was the only Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire for three years before he was executed at Queretaro by a Republican firing squad on 19 June 1867. His statue was removed in 1920 following the collapse of the Austrian Empire and only re-erected in the Piazza Venezia, Trieste, in 1997.
(160-200 GBP)