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500 Schilling Birth of Jesus Christ
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a frontal bust of Christ Pantocrator rendered in a hieratic Romanesque icon style, occupying nearly the entire field. Christ is depicted with long flowing hair and a beard, wearing richly draped liturgical vestments ornamented with a crescent-and-star brooch at the chest. His right hand is raised in a gesture of benediction, while his left hand holds an open Gospel book. A radiate cruciform halo surrounds his head, executed in bold low relief. The field is otherwise plain, with no legend or inscription, allowing the devotional image to dominate. |
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Austria's millennium gold series was produced to mark the year 2000, and this piece was one of several thematic issues released under that program. The .986 fineness — sometimes called "crown gold" in historical parlance though that term belongs to a different tradition — places it slightly above the more common .900 standard used in Austrian bullion coinage for most of the twentieth century.
Collectors should note that Fr#933 cross-references confirm this as a non-circulating legal tender issue, produced exclusively for the collector market at a time when the Schilling had fewer than two years left as Austria's official currency before euro adoption in 2002.