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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1464536, member: 39"]What I find interesting about those two is the different CoA arrangement on the obverses. The 25 Schilling coin shows the obverse that was in use between 1955 and 1964, with the shields of the nine states. The CoA on the 50 Schilling coin are those nine plus, at the top, the one with the federal eagle, used between 1964 and 1988. (Austria used a few obverse designs that were different from those two types.)</p><p><br /></p><p>When the Austrian Mint became a corporation under the "roof" of the central bank (OeNB) in 1989, that had an effect on the obverses too: The higher denomination commems (500 schilling and above, 10 euro and above) then had two issue-specific sides. The others (50S 1996-2001, €5 2002-today) had the nine state shields again ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1464536, member: 39"]What I find interesting about those two is the different CoA arrangement on the obverses. The 25 Schilling coin shows the obverse that was in use between 1955 and 1964, with the shields of the nine states. The CoA on the 50 Schilling coin are those nine plus, at the top, the one with the federal eagle, used between 1964 and 1988. (Austria used a few obverse designs that were different from those two types.) When the Austrian Mint became a corporation under the "roof" of the central bank (OeNB) in 1989, that had an effect on the obverses too: The higher denomination commems (500 schilling and above, 10 euro and above) then had two issue-specific sides. The others (50S 1996-2001, €5 2002-today) had the nine state shields again ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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