Franz Josef 50 year Memorial Medal 1898.   Age related wear please see scans.   Diameter 35 mm. the face with a head and shoulders portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I facing right circumscribed ‘‘FRANC IOS. I. D. G. IMP. AUSTR REX BOH. ETC. AC AP REX HUNG.’ (Franz Joseph I, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia etc. Apostolic King of Hungary); the reverse with a central rectangular plaque inscribed ‘SIGNUM MEMORIAE’ (Token of remembrance) within a wreath of laurel and oak and dated ‘MDCCCXLVIII – MDCCCXCVIII’ (1848 – 1898). The medal was issued to members of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces on 21 October 1898 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I.