Time Period: 1850-1920 / Austrian currency area

Timeline

  • 05.06.1852
  • Customs Treaty between Liechtenstein and Austria; effective 01.08.1852
  • 24.01.1857
  • Accession to the Vienna Coinage Treaty; effective on 01.01.1859 (by princely decree of 03.12.1858)
  • ??.??.1862
  • Issuance of a presentation coin of 1 Vereinstaler = 1½ Austrian guilders
  • 07.03.1868
  • Law on the ratification of the dissolution of the Vienna Coinage Treaty on 13.06.1867; effective 01.01.1868 (retroactive).
    - The 1852 customs union remained in place, therefore also the Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) Guilder as monetary standard (not mentioned in the law).
  • 03.12.1876
  • Tax and customs union between Liechtenstein and Austria-Hungary; effective on 01.08.1877
  • 08.08.1898
  • Coinage law [No. 2] on the issuance of gold and silver coins in the standard of the Austrian Crown; effective 26.08.1898
  • 17.08.1900
  • Currency law [No. 2] on the (nominal) adoption of the Austrian Crown as currency and unit of account; effective 01.01.1901
  • 02.08.1919
  • Termination of the tax and customs union between Liechtenstein and Austria-Hungary; effective 01.09.1919


Time Period: 1920- / Swiss currency area

Timeline

  • 27.08.1920
  • Law [No. 8] on the (unilateral) switch from Austrian to Swiss accounting at a ratio of 1 Austro-Hungarian Crown = 1 Swiss Franc; effective on 01.09.1920
  • 10.11.1920
  • Postal treaty between Liechtenstein and Switzerland; effective on 01.02.1921
  • 29.03.1923
  • Treaty of good neighborhood and customs between Liechtenstein and Switzerland; effective 01.01.1924
  • 26.05.1924
  • Currency law on the adoption of the Swiss Franc as currency and unit of account and issuance of Liechtenstein coinage (the law also authorized the issuance of paper money by the Liechtenstein Landesbank); effective immediately
  • 25.08.1924
  • Parliamentary resolution on the issuance of silver coins to circulate alongside the Swiss coins (the Liechtenstein coins were not valid in Switzerland, but were tolerated in the border areas); effective immediately.
  • 11.11.1930
  • Parliamentary resolution on the demonetization of the silver circulation coinage; effective on 30.03.1931
  • 11.05.1931
  • Coinage law on the issuance of 20, 10 Francs in gold according to the Swiss Standard of 1860 (1929); effective immediately
  • 05.06.1947
  • Coinage law on the issuance of 20, 10 Francs in gold according to the Swiss Standard of 1936; effective immediately
  • 22.12.1952
  • Coinage law on the issuance of 50, 25 Francs in gold according to the Swiss Standard of 1936; effective immediately
  • 05.04.1956
  • Coinage law on the issuance of 100 Francs in gold according to the Swiss Standard of 1936; effective immediately
  • 05.10.1961
  • Coinage law on the issuance of 50, 25 Francs in gold according to the Swiss Standard of 1936; effective immediately