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5 Euros Joseph Haydn
| Issuer | Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2009 - - 450,000 2009 - Brilliant Uncirculated - 100,000 |
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Issued in the bicentenary year of Haydn's death, this coin was part of Austria's broader commemorative program marking 2009 as the official "Haydn Year." Haydn spent nearly three decades as court composer for the Esterházy family at Eszterháza, largely isolated from the wider musical world — a circumstance he later credited with forcing him toward originality. Austria's commemorative coinage program that year also included Mozart-adjacent releases, reflecting the mint's tendency to cluster classical composer issues around anniversaries regardless of thematic coherence.