Coin Collecting News
The Austrian Mint will issue on the 25th January 2012 the first of a new 5 coin gold series celebrating one of the leading luminaries of the art nouveau movement, Gustav Klimt, and his primary subject, women. The series commencing this year also coincides with the 150th anniversary of Klimt’s birth. Gustav Klimt was born [...]
The Mint of Austria has launched their first “2012” dated collector coin. The new 5 Euro coin marks the 200th anniversary of the “Society of Music Friends” or “Musikverein” in Vienna. It started as a small group of friends of music which grew rapidly and soon had its own concert hall. Prior to building the [...]
The Austrian Mint have issued (9th November) their latest gold coin which depicts the crowns worn by the previous Habsburg Kings and Emperors of Austria – Hungary. The fourth coin in the series features the mysterious crown of Saint Wenceslas, or the crown of Bohemia. The crown is named in honor of Saint Wenceslas, patron [...]
The Mint of Austria have issued (12th October) the sixth and final coin in their popular “Legends of Austria” series. The final legend to be featured in this series commemorates a song written in 1679, “Du Lieber Augustin”, which is still used today as inspiration for contemporary entertainment. Marx Augustin (1643 – 1685) was a [...]
The Austrian Mint has released their latest silver and niobium bimetallic 25 euro coin. Representing the ninth annual issue, the coin features the theme of robotics and the niobium core is colored a deep reddish-pink. The obverse of the coin portrays a robot in humanoid form, recalling the Vetruvian man of Leonardo Da Vinci. The [...]
The Mint of Austria have issued (23rd February) a new silver coin to mark the natural science expedition led by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) who headed his team into the Caribbean and visited various islands such as St. Vincent, Grenada, Aruba, St. Christopher, Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba between 1754 and 1759. Born in Holland, [...]
The Austrian Mint has issued the third coin in the “Crowns of the House of Hasburg” series. The gold coin, with a nominal face value of 100 euros, is dedicated to the Holy Crown of St. Stephen of the Kingdom of Hungary. Around the year 1000, ambassadors of Stephen(965/975-1038), approached Pope Sylvester II for the [...]
The Munze Osterreich (Austrian Mint) has issued the fourth €10 silver coin in their ongoing “Tales and Legends in Austria” series. This coin tells of the legend of Untersberg in intricate detail. The famous emperor Charlemagne and his army sleep beneath the mountain awaiting the recall to life. The obverse of the coin depicts a [...]
The Austrian Mint has released the second coin in the “Rome on the Danube” silver coin series, featuring “Vindobona” or Vienna in the Roman Empire. The new series features towns and cities located along the River Danbue in present day Austria that were established during the time of the Roman Empire. Originally a Celtic settlement, [...]
The Austrian Mint has released a 5 Euro silver coin featuring the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. The coin celebrates the 75th anniversary of the date that the road was officially opened to traffic on August 3, 1935. The road enables the crossing from the province of Salzburg to Carinthia over Austria’s highest mountain, the Grossglockner. [...]
