I found it, @bdmillergallery! I got this two years ago when I was into commemoratives. I had a special liking to this one since I liked the music and played it in my piano!
The Blue Danube Waltz has become one of the most representative works of Johann Strauss II and is sometimes seen as the unofficial national anthem of Austria.
In Vienna, there is no escaping The Blue Danube Waltz. It is played all year-round, in restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is Austria’s unofficial national anthem and the most identified melody with that city. Without it, the New Year’s Concert in Vienna would not be complete.
Most people know this joyful classic waltz by its English name ‘The Blue Danube’. It is Johann Strauss II’s most famous Waltz, composed in 1866 to lift the country’s spirit after Austria was defeated by Prussia in the Seven Weeks’ War in 1866. He was inspired by Karl Isidor Beck’s poem. Each stanza ends with the line: ‘By the Danube, beautiful blue Danube’.
Reverse: Johann Strauss the Younger, playing the violin, and the 1967 date below. The lettering: 100 JAHRE DONAUWALZER is translated to mean 100 Years of Donauwalzer.
The edge is inscribed with the lettering: FUENFZIG SCHILLING.Translation: Fifty Schilling
Minted in Vienna, Austria, the obverse shows the vaue of 50 shillings within the circle of shields.
This is a current listing of the coin.
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