10 Euros Loden, silver

Part of Austria's ongoing "Crafts and Traditions" series, this issue commemorates Loden — the dense, felted wool cloth whose production has been centered in the alpine regions of Austria and Bavaria for centuries. Loden's near-waterproof properties made it the defining material of alpine working dress long before it became fashionable in urban bourgeois hunting attire during the nineteenth century.

The .925 fineness places it in the sterling range rather than the .900 fine standard Austria used for most of its earlier collector silver.