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Austria 100 Schillings (1975): 1976 Innsbruck Olympics

Started by Bimat, July 09, 2023, 02:01:37 PM

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Bimat

Here's another collector coin I added to the collection: An Austrian 100 Schilling silver commemorating 12th Winter Olympics in Innsbruck (1976) - The coin weighs 24 grams and it's Ag 640. Diameter: 36mm, KM# 2927.

Engraver: Helmuth Gsollpointner (Obverse), Arthur Zelger (Reverse)

Edge is inscripted, which reads HUNDERT SCHILLING (Hundred Schilings)

Aditya
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K. Rowling.

quaziright

I don't normally collect these sort of NCLTs however when I was at the Toronto coin expo just before Covid, I happen to see several of these with different themes being sold at just above melt value. So I picked up one of each of them for about 12 or 13$ (Canadian) a piece. I didn't know how many were out there, but later when I came home I found that I was missing just 2 in the series (now just one). The interesting story behind my particular pieces is that they were found hidden inside the stair case wall of a house in Guelph. The person had 25 and 50 schilling coins too, but I just focussed on the higher denomination. Glad I did because there were way too many of the lower denomination series

krishna

seems quite an industrial design compared to the modern philharmonics they issue these days
nice coin though, congratulations

chrisild

The stylized city silhouette is a nice design. :) That kind of square design was used for the eagle side in 1975 for the first time, and in 1978 for the last time. A few other experiments with eagle only or state CoA's were tried out but in 1980 Austria went, for the silver commems, back to the look used in the 1960s ...

In 1989 quite a few things changed for the Austrian Mint - its legal status but also the issue and design policy. They started using gold (had happened only one single time before), and with the silver coins both sides became issue specific. By the way, usually all Austrian coins are minted in Vienna, but for this issue an exception was made: Since Innsbruck is in the state of Tyrol, the Old Mint in neighboring Hall was "reactivated". The three issues in that Olympics series have either the Vienna (cross, as on your coin) or Hall (eagle) mintmark. Mintages and values are roughly the same. :)

Bimat

Quote from: krishna on July 09, 2023, 04:37:34 PMseems quite an industrial design compared to the modern philharmonics they issue these days
nice coin though, congratulations

Yeah, it's quite an uninspiring design if compared to recent Austrian designs (or even many of the pre-euro designs of Austrian collector coins).. Got this one along with the Japanese medal by luck as my lowest bid turned out to be the highest one. :D

Aditya
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K. Rowling.

Figleaf

AN interesting indicator that the Olympic medal could be from a German speaking country.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.