Austrian Silver - 5 Shillings (1961)
After a brief visit to Russia, today's silver coin takes us to another European country, Austria!
This is a relatively recent piece, a 5 schilling from 1961:
Front side is pretty plain, some dude on a horse or something. Apparently, it's:
A Lipizzaner horse with its rider from the Spanish Court Riding School.
The lipizzaner is a horse breed from back the 16th century for which you can learn more by clicking [here]. It has a really interesting history and almost went extinct a few times ! The front side also reads "REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH" for republic of Austria, the originating country of the coin. Duh!
The other side is pretty plain too, featuring the minting date, coin value and the The Austrian escutcheon.
The edge is reeded with no letters or other fancy stuff.
In regards to composition, this little fella is 5.2 g of 0.640 and 0.360 copper. That's 3.328 of silver. Not great , not terrible 😅
Here's a size comparison with a standard 50 cents euro coin:
All in all a pretty basic and quite common silver coin. I got mine for just 2 euros, a price close to spot, making it imo a great pick if you want to build a stack!
Here's some more quick specs about the coin from numista:
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First,I like the way you describe the coins
" After a brief visit to Russia"
In my opinion, the coin is just bland
Nothing intriguing tho
The horse has some cool history ^_^
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Another excellent coin from Austria. It is so good for collecting, stacked together is quite valuable !
It looks really nice but kind of old
It's actually a camel...
Oh, and the front side is plain cuz that's how Austrians are. Plain, simple and boring.
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Well, Austria has some sexy coins as well. :) 😉
Is that Arnold?
No, my mom
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The second coin in the last picture looks like one bronze coin with a bald Nigerian colonial Master. When are you giving me a bit of your wealth?
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Ahhhhh that's disappointing hahahaha
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This coin deserves an upvote from Austria ;)
Haha tanks! You for any of those babes?
I have a few of them, just because I used them as actual currency in my childhood (not the silver version but there was an identical version without silver), up until the Euro came. Nostalgia!
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Looking beautiful with those collection 👍👍
Eleftherios Venizelos, the old man, took office of the Prime Minister 8 time during his entire life. wow!
The horse is a Lipizzaner stallion, a pure white breed, that are trained to dance like camels in UAE or maybe differently, but they do.
Simple but looks hush.. ;)
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Nice horse dude. But the other guy. Holy shit, what a cutie!
looks like some villain :D
How big is your stash now?
Not big enough 😅😂
I'm more into silver coins with birds than horses but either way its precious silver, we can't lose and it ain't just horse feed. ;)
I need to get me some of those so I can be chillin counting shilling
That’s a cool looking coin. Nice one
Near where I grew up there is a place that still breeds those kind of horses. But I'm not much of a horse guy because sadles are freaking uncomfortable for your balls
Good thing you have no balls then!
it's true you can't see them because of the hairy jungle down there but they do exist
I think there is a much cooler coin to get, something I have kept on the back burner, dream coin of sorts. A 2009 200 Zlotych coin of the 17th Century Polish Winged Hussars.
Woah! Will you gift me one please?
Australia silver coin chilling differently in view
It might be a bit plain but it's still silver regardless. Are you able to get silver easily under the spot price? If not, then I think you still got a good deal.
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Under spot is really rare, in most cases you have to pay at least a 10% premium
This caught my attention. It almost feels like magic until you realize it. Or am I the only dumbo here? xD
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Realize what? Lmao
That this pic is upside down. xD
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And why is it magic? 😂
It looked like the coin is hanging on the wood not placed on it. Then I realized the picture was upside down. Dummy me. xD
Nice coins!'
Stack on!!!