the portrait of the emperor and king is on the obverse of the medal. All military and gendarmes were eligible for the medal, as well as civil servants. The design of the medal came from Jozef Tautenhayn.
The Franz Joseph Jubilee commemorative medal 1898 was a decoration of the double monarchy Austria-Hungary. In 1898 celebrated emperor Frans Jozeph that he acceded the throne 50 years earlier in the revolutionyear 1848.
