The Mint Conference and Convention in Vienna sought to eliminate the problems from this, and the treaty was the result.
Articles 2 and 3: There would be a single silver standard, but three national coinage systems would be permitted: Article 4: The exchange rates of the system would bw 1 thaler convention piece (1/30 point) = 1.5 florins (Austrian currency) = 1.75 florin (South Germany currency).
Article 8: For the accommodation and facilitation of international trade among the contracting states, two coins, answering to the specifications of the principal coins, provided for in Article 2 and on the monetary basis there contemplated, would be struck under the denomination of Vereinsthaler.
[1] The Vienna Monetary Treaty failed to accomplish all of its intended results for two principal reasons.
First, it ran counter to the monetary theories, most widely held at the time, which favored a gold standard.
The Second Italian War of Independence broke out between Italy and Austria in 1859, less than two years after the conclusion of the treaty hampered its operation.