10 Dollars Goodbye Austrian Currency

Liberia ran an extensive commemorative program throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, issuing silver-plated base metal pieces by the hundreds for the international collector market — virtually none of which circulated domestically. This piece marks the 2002 introduction of euro banknotes and coins in Austria, which replaced the schilling after a transitional period that began with the euro's accounting introduction in 1999. The schilling had been Austria's currency since 1925, interrupted only by the Anschluss years when the Reichsmark was imposed.