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500 Schilling Book Printer
| Issuer | Austrian Mint (Münze Österreich) |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 500 Schilling (500 ATS) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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The 500 Schilling silver commemorative series ran through the final years of Austria's pre-euro currency, and this 1998 issue honoring the early book printing trade arrived just four years before the schilling was retired permanently. Austria had a legitimate claim to the subject: the region's printing houses, particularly in Vienna and the monastic centers of the alpine lands, were among the earliest north of the Alps to adopt Gutenberg's movable-type technology in the 1460s and 1470s.
The .925 fineness places it in the sterling range rather than the .900 fine standard used in earlier Austrian silver coinage.