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5 Euros Danube Waltz
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts a waltzing couple in 19th-century period dress in the central field, with a violinist — an evocation of Johann Strauss II — shown prominently to the right, bow in hand. The figures are rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field, conveying the elegance and movement of the Viennese ballroom tradition. Along the lower portion of the field, a staff of musical notes from the "Blue Danube" waltz is incused as a decorative element. The curved legend "150 Jahre Donauwalzer" arcs across the upper field, and the date "2017" appears at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 150 Jahre Donauwalzer 2017 |
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Austria's "Silver Niobium" commemorative program gets most of the collector attention, but the parallel bimetallic and silver series issued under themed rubrics like this one tends to circulate quietly into collections without much scrutiny. The Danube Waltz coin belongs to a multi-year "Voices of Austria" series, each issue tying a musical work to national identity — a deliberate institutional response to the Austrian Mint's need to maintain collector revenue as bullion premiums tightened in the mid-2010s.
The .800 fineness places it in an older Central European silver tradition, predating decimalization-era coinage standards.