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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1594600, member: 39&quot;](I rephrased the quote for you. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) </p><p><br /></p><p>A symbol of strength, combined with the idea of sowing after the war, I guess. That coin is odd in more than one regard though. It was designed by Michael Powolny, based on a painting from the 1920s by Albin Egger-Lienz, titled <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/AEL_Saemann_und_Teufel_-_zweite_Fassung.jpg/531px-AEL_Saemann_und_Teufel_-_zweite_Fassung.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/AEL_Saemann_und_Teufel_-_zweite_Fassung.jpg/531px-AEL_Saemann_und_Teufel_-_zweite_Fassung.jpg" rel="nofollow">Sämann und Teufel</a> (Sower and Devil). So the naked person on the 1 schilling coin is, strictly speaking, the devil (sowing poisoned wheat). Also, Egger-Lienz&#039;s works were not very popular in the first post-WW2 years because some leading nazis had apparently liked them (Egger-Lienz died in the mid-1920s).</p><p><br /></p><p>But I suppose that, after a while, people in Austria did not think of the man on the coin as a devil. After all, Powolny did not &quot;copy&quot; the painting but created his own work more or less loosely based on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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