Austrian Mint continues its award-winning gold wildlife series with the Fox One of our favourite mints worldwide is the Muenz Osterreich, or Austrian Mint. Producers of such superb series as the Niobium range, Klimt, Austria: Piece by Piece, and Prehistoric Life, each coin is gimmick free and struck to [...]
Our latest Coin Series Profile featuring Austria: Piece by Piece series now live One of the Austrian Mints premiere precious metal series over the last few years has been the innovative Austria: Piece by Piece one. Struck in silver, or copper, there's nothing innovative about the coin specification. However, [...]
AUSTRIAN MINT'S MOZART TRILOGY WRAPS UP WITH MOZART: THE LEGEND Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is without question one of the most highly regarded musical geniuses in history. A classic boy genius, Mozart produced a body of musical work in his short life like no other. His music is simply outstanding, [...]
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 [...]
