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5 Euros Danube Waltz

Issuer Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich)
Year 2017
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Currency Euro (2002-date)
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
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Additional information

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.

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