The Austrian Mints ten-coin series called ‘Federal Provinces’, also known as Austria: Piece by Piece, hits its seventh release and showcases this European countries capital city, Vienna and the like-minded province it sits in. Host to the United Nations and OPEC, Vienna is the seventh largest city by population within the European Union and a third of Austria's population [...]
Starting back in 2012, the Austrian Mint embarked on a new five-coin series 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 are exquisitely designed and closely tied with some of his most famous [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
