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 [...]
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 [...]
The Austrian Mints new range of Prehistoric Creature coins has kicked off with the first release in the range, Trias: Life in the Deep. The obverse of this proof 34mm coin shows an Ammonite in life and as a fossil over a timeline that will run through all five coins in the series. The [...]
