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BRILLIANT AUSTRIAN PREHISTORIC LIFE SERIES ENDS WITH FIFTH AND FINAL COIN

By Mik Woodgate|2021-01-25T15:27:54+00:00February 23rd, 2015|Categories: Nature, Austrian Mint, Austria, Silver|

Sadly, we've come to the end of the Austrian Mint's superb series of palaeontological coins, 'Prehistoric Life: Back From the Dead, with the release of the fifth coin, Quaternary: Life on the Ground. The first coin in this series was the subject of the first post I ever wrote for AgAuNEWS, so I've clearly been an admirer of these coins from [...]

AUSTRIAN MINT SHOWCASES THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOLS 450TH

By Mik Woodgate|2021-01-24T17:09:15+00:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: Culture, Austrian Mint, Austria, Silver|

The Austrian Mint (Muenze Osterreich) has released a new silver coin commemorating 450 years since the formation of what is now the world’s oldest riding academy, the Spanish Riding School. Called “Spanish” because its horses originated in the Iberian Peninsula in the 16th century, they now train beautiful Lipizzaner stallions, a cross between Spanish, Arabian and Berber horses. Legally [...]