Time for the release of the penultimate coin in the ten-piece Mint of Austria series that looks at the nine regions of Austria through the imagination of children. The series is usually called Austria: Piece by Piece, but at other times we've seen it referred to as ‘Federal Provinces’, or even 'Austria By Its Children'. If [...]
One of the archetypical boy geniuses of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced a body of musical work like no other in his short life, dying at age 35 from a fever. The Austrian Mint are celebrating the mans work with a trilogy of proof silver coins to be released one per year from 2015 to [...]
With a debut back in 2012, the Austrian Mint embarked on a five-piece set of coins to be released one-per-year, featuring Gustav Klimt’s paintings, specifically from a particular phase of his career when women were the focus of his attention, called his “golden phase”. Titled Klimt and his Women, the 10g proof-finish coins have won multiple [...]
One of the worlds premier bullion coins, the Austrian Mint's Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic) has been a huge seller for many years. Generally, only the Canadian Maple Leaf and American Eagle bullion coins are bigger sellers, but still the Philharmonic has had sales of its silver bullion coin approaching 18 million units in a year (2011). [...]
The first 2016-dated issue of the Austrian Mint features a world-famous society event, the Vienna Opera Ball. An annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera, on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday. Together with the New Year Concert, the Opera Ball is one of the highlights of the Viennese carnival [...]
Here's a quick peek at the Austrian Mints 2016 entrant in its ultra popular Niobium series of silver coins. For the third year in sucession the mint has applied two different colours of oxidation to each face and this looks to be another superb entrant after last years very popular Cosmology coin. The subject this time is [...]
It was two years ago back in October 2013 that the Austrian Mint, launched a new six-year series of ½oz gold coins entitled ‘Wildlife in our Sights’. The first coin depicted the magnificent Red Deer, one that went on to win last years Most Artistic Coin at the Coin of the Year awards. The 2014 coin, pictured [...]
The Austrian Mints ten-coin ‘Federal Provinces’, or Austria: Piece by Piece series continues on with the release of the eighth coin, this time depicting the flattest province in this European country, Burgenland. Bordering Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, Burgenland is the location of the Neusiedler See, a lake known for its reeds and shallowness, along with a fine bird population. The [...]
The Austrian Mint have embarked upon another of their silver coin programs and this time they're celebrating Austrias most famous person. A three-coin 0.900 silver set, one will be released every year until 2017. They chart the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most highly regarded musical geniuses in history. Each looks at a time in his [...]
Austria has released its latest nine-sided five-euro coin in 0.800 silver and this one has a very cool design depicting the Bundesheer, the Austrian Armed Forces. Tasked primarily with the military defence of Austria, but also with defending constitutional institutions, preserving law and order and providing humanitarian aid in case of natural catastrophes, the forces consist of the usual [...]
