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| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 2021 REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH 20 EURO 0° CYGNUS X-1 90° SONNE 270° KREBS- PULSAR ORION- ARM 180° |
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| Mintage | 2021 - Proof - 30,000 |
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Part of Austria's long-running "Astronomy" collector series, this issue accompanied a broader push by the Münze Österreich to produce niobium-core and specialty silver pieces aimed squarely at the thematic collector market rather than circulation. Austria has been unusually aggressive in this space since the late 1990s, and the Milky Way release sits within a cohort of issues tied loosely to European Space Agency programming and public science outreach in the early 2020s.