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25 Euros Time
| Issuer | Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse description | The niobium centre features an intricate arrangement of mechanical clock components, including interlocking gear wheels and cogwheels rendered in fine relief, evoking the inner workings of a precision timepiece. Symbolic representations of time are interspersed among the gears, including an hourglass, the sun and moon, and a spiral motif. The silver outer ring bears world city names with their corresponding times and a numerical sequence, framing the mechanical composition. The overall design conveys the passage and measurement of time across different civilisations and scales. |
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| Mint | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich), Vienna |
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Austria's niobium commemorative series, running since 2003, was the first bimetallic coinage to pair silver with niobium anywhere in the world — a material choice driven as much by the element's capacity to be anodized into distinct colors as by any practical minting tradition. The 2016 issue on the theme of time is the fourteenth in the series, with each year's niobium center anodized to a different hue specific to that subject. Annual mintage is capped at 65,000 pieces, and the coins are struck exclusively for collectors — none entered circulation.