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500 Schilling Karl Böhm
| Issuer | Austrian Mint |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse description | Facing right bust of the celebrated Austrian conductor Karl Böhm rendered in high relief, depicted wearing glasses, occupying the right half of the field. To the left, the legend REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH, the denomination 500 SCHILLING, and the date 1991 are arranged vertically in a distinctive Art Nouveau-inspired typographic style with interlocking letterforms. Böhm's facsimile signature appears in cursive script below his portrait, and the engraver's name H. WÄHNER is incused at the lower left. The coin is framed by a decorative inner border of small circular bosses. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Karl Böhm died in 1981, and this commemorative was struck a decade later to mark the tenth anniversary of his death. One of the few conductors to maintain an unbroken international career through the postwar denazification period despite his wartime associations with the Reich, Böhm remained a permanent fixture at the Vienna State Opera and developed a particularly close relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic that lasted until his final years. Austria's commemorative silver program of the late 1980s and early 1990s leaned heavily on cultural figures rather than political ones — Böhm, Lanner, Stifter — reflecting a deliberate curatorial choice by the mint in consultation with the Austrian government.