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100 Schilling Mozart - Salzburg
| Issuer | Münze Österreich |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 100 Schilling (100 ATS) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH 100 SCHILLING DOM ZU SALZBURG 1991 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Austria's long-running commemorative schilling series devoted an entire run of issues to Mozart and Salzburg through the late 1980s and early 1990s, timed in part around the 1991 bicentennial of Mozart's death. The 200th anniversary prompted a sharp spike in Austrian state commemorative output that year, with multiple Mozart-themed issues competing for collector attention simultaneously.
The .900 fine silver standard used here traces directly to the Austro-Hungarian monetary tradition — Münze Österreich maintained it for commemoratives long after base-metal circulation coinage had abandoned any precious metal content entirely.