What's up plebs?
Trumpy boy returns with yet another silver piece from Austria. I believe this is the last one I own (for now) from that country. I guess I'll take a quick look tomorrow and share anymore I might own and get over with said country.
As always, let's first take a look before learning more about it and the history behind it:
Looks like we have some old bald dude called Franz Lehar. Now that's someone I have never heard before.
Turns out he was an Austro-Hungarian composer born in 1870 in the northern part of Komárom. He is considered to be a "giant" in the world of operetta, a type of light, musical comedies with spoken dialogue. His most famous works were "The Merry Widow" (Die lustige Witwe) which is still performed today! His operettas are characterized by their romantic and sometimes satirical nature.
Here's a quick sneak peek from a modern adaptation
Lehár sometime between 1915 and 1920, Public Domain
And here's a link to Wikipedia if you'd like to read more on him. Honestly, I don't have much interest in the genre so meh 😑 😂
By the way we have three engraved dates here. "1870-1948" which are the years of birth and death of Lehar. And "1970" which is the minting date of the coin, issued for the 100th Anniversary since his birth.
Moving on to the other side of the coin...
Like the rest of the Austrian shillings I have shown you, we have the denomination (25 schillings), the coats of arms of the Austrian states and the text
REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
For
REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA
And like the rest of Austrian shillings we have seen, we have an engraved edge
It reads
FUENFUNDZWANZIG SCHILLING
For
25 schillings
Silverwise, the recipe is the same ol'. 13 g of 0.800 silver, the rest being copper. Giving us 10.4 g of pure silver.
Here are some quick stats from Numista, in case you care:
Issuer: Austria
Period: Second Republic (1945-date)
Type: Non-circulating coin
Year: 1970
Value: 25 Schilling (25 ATS)
Currency: Second Schilling (1945-2001)
Diameter: 30.5 mm
Thickness: 2.13 mm
Shape: Round
Technique: Milled
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized: 28 February 2002
That's pretty much about today's coin. Honestly, this is a really meh piece for me when it comes to the design and historical significance, since I don't have much interest on the guy or the music genre. But I got the coin close to spot so who cares. Cheap silver is good silver :)
Silvergoldstackers Re-blog Lottery
Looks like cheap hive is back on the menu which means it's a good time for me to start accumulating HBI again! I will be drawing every day one winner with each new post. 5 hbi, one winner takes all. Feel free to re-blog this post for a chance to win some for free. My only condition is that you are an active member on the silvergoldstackers community here on hive or discord! If you are not, come on the discord, say a hi and tag me!
Yesterday's participants were:
@geneeverett
@gwajnberg
@jfang003
@thebighigg
@thetimetravelerz
@youloseagain
And the winner is...
@thebighigg! He gets 5 hbi. The rest one piece for participating 😀