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11/2 Euro Vienna Mint - Leopold V
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts Duke Leopold V of Babenberg mounted on horseback facing left, rendered after an original illumination preserved at the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz. The equestrian figure is shown in medieval armor with heraldic detail, set within a plain field. The surrounding legend at the rim reads REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH, with the denomination 1,50 EURO, the date 2019, and the purity designation 1 UNZE FEINSILBER arranged in the exergual and peripheral areas. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Leopold V, Duke of Austria, is best remembered in monetary history for holding Richard I of England to ransom in 1192 — a captivity that lasted over a year and generated a ransom of 150,000 marks of silver, roughly three times the annual revenue of the English crown. The Austrian Mint's long-running "House of Austria" series uses figures like Leopold to anchor the institution's own medieval origins, the Vienna mint having operated continuously since the twelfth century.
The .9999 fineness is notably purer than the .999 standard common to most silver bullion issues.