Welcome to Clinker's Numismatic Tour Guide Service. Thought you might like to see some Austrian castles and the coins that bear the designer's art work on them. All coin photos courtesy of Don's World Coin Gallery. Let's start our imaginary tour with a 1983 20 Shilling featuring Hochosterwitz Castle (For a larger view of the castle click on the Castle side of the coin): http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...osterwitz Castle &query=Austria Hochosterwitz Feast your eyes on Ambras Castle as the designer has it displayed on this 2002 10 Euro:: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...ro (2002) Ambras Castle &query=Austria Ambras Help me unveil the third Austrian coin to bear a great monument to the past. Carefully peruse this 2002 10 Euro boasting about the strength of Eggenberg Castle: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...02) Eggenberg Castle &query=Austria Eggenberg No fortress at our tour's next stop, but a symbol of pomposity and wealth clearly emanates from this 2003 10 Euro giving us a view of Hof Castle: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...o (2003) Hof Castle &query=Austria Hof Castle Turn your eyes toward the East and this 2003 10 Euro revealing the splendor of Schonbrunn Castle: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...) Schonbrunn Castle &query=Austria Schonbrunn Ready to continue the tour and see the flamboyant Hellbrunn Castle? It rests on this 2004 10 Euro: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...04) Hellbrunn Castle &query=Austria Hellbrunn Come back aboard our tour bus and I'll take you to an advantage point where another 200410 Euro gives you the artist's view of Arttetten Castle: http://worldcoingallery.com/countri...) Artstetten Castle &query=Austria Artstetten That finishes todays tour. Hope you enjoyed your tour... Clinker
Very, very cool! I didn't really plan on it but I have ended up with a fairly large percentage of Austrian coins in my collection, I think they are pretty cool. But I don't have any of them above.
Some of those coins are quite nicely designed. Others are a little over-detailed, but that is common with Austrian collector coins. Let me add a few more, because of the Burg/Schloss thing. In German there are two words for "castle"; a "Burg" is the fortified type, designed to keep the attacking enemy away. And a "Schloss" is the residence castle type. Of course quite a few "Burg" castles were later turned into "Schloss" castles. Anyway, the Austrian Mint first issued a "Burgen" theme series, then followed by the "Schlösser" series that you showed us. These are images from the Austrian Mint's website. So I think it is OK to use "img" links here. Oh, and despite the slightly different shades of gray or color here, the actual coins are all silver pieces. (1) Rosenburg (2) Lockenhaus (3) Hochosterwitz (4) Hohenwerfen (5) Kufstein (6) Schattenburg There are some more castles on Austrian coins. This week for example a new €10 collector coin came out ... The piece features Blondel de Nesle in front of Dürnstein castle. On the other side, Richard Lionheart being captured by Duke Leopold. Christian
Hi Bill: You got to be an admirer of coins to own coins you didn't plan to own. Good for you! :hug: Clinker
Hi chrisild: A great big "T H A N K S!" for all the additional info and your knowledge on this subject...:bow: Clinker
Wouldn't have added those if you had not started the topic. So here's the Thanks back to you! Christian
To chrisild: Those of you who comment and post addendums after reading one of my posts keeps this old coin collector going... Clinker
Meh, I was in Austria recently and seen one or two in the flesh..or stone heh..Slovakia has MUCH better castles. Nice coins.
Umm, until a couple of decades ago the republics of Austria and Slovakia were parts of the same country. Besides, in my opinion it is odd to say that X has better castles than Y. However, Slovakia had Devín castle on the 50h coin, and now has Bratislava castle on the 10/20/50c coins - and those were/are even circulating pieces. In terms of collector coins, they have a few neat issues, such as the Spiš coin from the World Heritage series. Christian
kaijapska Thanks for reading. Are any of those, "better" castles in Slovakia featured on a coin? I beg your pardon - chrisild answered my question.... Clinker
