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3 Euros Crocodile
| Issuer | Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a richly detailed central design depicting a group of animals in a naturalistic wildlife scene, rendered in high relief against a textured field. The composition includes various fauna arranged in a lively, dynamic grouping occupying the majority of the coin's face. The circular legend reads 'REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH' along the upper arc and '3 EURO' along the lower arc, both in bold raised Latin lettering. The design is executed in a contemporary illustrative style characteristic of the Austrian Mint's animal collector series. |
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| Mintage | 2017 - - 50,000 |
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Austria's 3-euro "Animal" series launched in 2017 as an explicitly child-oriented collecting program, priced at face value to encourage young buyers. The denomination itself is the gimmick — three euros for a three-year-old's first coin, as the mint's own promotional logic ran. No prior Austrian circulation issue had used this denomination.
The crocodile was the inaugural subject, setting off an annual series that would eventually span a dozen species.