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50 Schilling Karl Renner
| Issuer | Republic of Austria |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Value | 50 Schilling (50 ATS) |
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| Reverse description | Right-facing portrait bust of Dr. Karl Renner, Austrian statesman and first Federal President of the Second Republic, depicted in high relief wearing spectacles and showing a short beard. The legend '1870 · DR · KARL' arcs along the upper left rim and 'RENNER · 1950' continues along the upper right, referencing his birth and death years. The issue year '1970' appears in the lower field below the portrait, and the engraver's signature 'BASZEL' is incised along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1870 DR KARL RENNER 1950 1970 |
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Karl Renner died in 1950, making this a commemorative issued two decades after his death — timed to the centenary of his birth in 1870. Renner is a genuinely complicated figure: he led the provisional government that proclaimed the First Austrian Republic in 1918, then voted in favor of the Anschluss in 1938, then somehow emerged credible enough to head the Second Republic in 1945. The Austrian state's willingness to put him on a coin in 1970 reflects a postwar consensus that quietly bracketed his wartime conduct.