Coin Collecting News
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. [...]
The Austrian Mint recently issued a 50 Euro Gold Coin featuring Baron Clemens von Pirquet. This release marked the conclusion of the commemorative series “Celebrated Physicians of Austria.” Pirquet was born in 1874 just outside of Vienna. In 1892, he began studying theology, but abandoned it in favor of medicine. He graduated from Königsberg (Prussia) [...]
The Austrian Mint has released the first coin in a new series “Rome on the Danube”, which will commemorate the towns located in Austria along the River Danube that were established during the time of the Roman Empire. The first 20 Euro coin of the series features the city of Virunum. The province of Noricum [...]
The Austrian Mint has released the third coin in the €10 silver commemorative coin series “Tales and Legends in Austria.” The latest coin recalls the folktale explaining the discovery of the iron ore mountain in Styria known as the Erzberg. According to the folktale, local inhabitants discovered a water sprite living in an underwater grotto [...]
The Austrian Mint has released the latest issue of their 25 euro coin series, which blends the elegance of fine silver with the beauty of colored niobium. The theme of this year’s coin is Renewable Energy. This will represent the eighth coin in what is undoubtedly the Austrian Mint’s most success for series which has [...]
To celebrate the 2010 Olympic Winter Games held in Vancouver, the Austrian Mint has issued two silver 5 Euro Coins. Each coin depicts a winter sport in which Austria excels, namely ski jumping and snowboarding. The 5 Euro Ski Jump coin displays a helmeted ski jumper in mid flight with a background of trees in [...]
On November 4, 2009, the Austrian Mint released the second coin in the series “Crowns of the House of Hasburg.” The new 100 Euro gold coin is dedicated to the Archducal Crown of Austria. The crown is also referred to as the “Archduke’s Hat”, a name derived from the red velvet cap within the crown [...]
