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5 Euros Duerer's Young Hare
| Issuer | Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 8.9 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the numeral '5' of the face value at centre, flanked and surrounded by the nine heraldic shields of the Austrian federal provinces, arranged in a circular composition across the nonagonal field. The encircling legend 'REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH' appears along the upper periphery, with '5 · EURO ·' inscribed below the central numeral. The design consciously echoes the classic composition of the earlier Austrian 50 Schilling coinage, rendered by engraver Helmut Andexlinger. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of the Austrian Mint's long-running "Faszination Kunstgeschichte" series celebrating masterworks in the Kunsthistorisches Museum's collection, this issue commemorates Albrecht Dürer's 1502 watercolor and gouache study, held in the museum's Albertina graphic collection. The piece was revolutionary for its time — a serious naturalistic study of an animal rendered with scientific precision, predating the broader Northern European shift toward empirical observation by decades.
Copper €5 pieces in this series circulate at face value but are primarily sold directly by the mint as collectibles, meaning genuine circulation examples are essentially nonexistent.