Part of Austria's ongoing "Glücksgefühle" (Feelings of Happiness) series, which pairs each silver issue with a niobium-core bimetallic counterpart struck in a different color. The Aufdirndln issues celebrate regional Austrian folk costume traditions, with linen representing one of the oldest textile crafts in the Alpine farming economy — flax cultivation in Upper Austria dates back to medieval estate records and remained a domestic cottage industry well into the nineteenth century before industrial competition from imported cotton collapsed local production.
Part of Austria's ongoing "Glücksgefühle" (Feelings of Happiness) series, which pairs each silver issue with a niobium-core bimetallic counterpart struck in a different color. The Aufdirndln issues celebrate regional Austrian folk costume traditions, with linen representing one of the oldest textile crafts in the Alpine farming economy — flax cultivation in Upper Austria dates back to medieval estate records and remained a domestic cottage industry well into the nineteenth century before industrial competition from imported cotton collapsed local production.