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Austria

The Austrian euro coins were designed on the themes of flowers, architecture and famous people in history. Further to public consultation through opinion polls, a panel of 13 experts chose the winning designs by artist Josef Kaiser.

  • The €2 coin shows the portrait of the radical pacifist Bertha von Suttner, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. The edge lettering on the €2 coin is ‘2 EURO ***’, repeated four times, alternately upright and inverted.
  • The €1 coin shows the portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the famous Austrian composer, and his signature.
  • The 10, 20, and 50-cent coins depict architectural works in Vienna: the spires of St Stephen’s Cathedral (10 cent), a masterpiece of Viennese Gothic architecture; the Belvedere Palace (20 cent), a jewel of Austrian baroque style, and the ‘Sezession’ building in Vienna (50 cent), a symbol of Austrian modernism and the birth of a new era.
  • The 1, 2 and 5-cent coins show Alpine flowers representing Austria’s obligations and commitment to the environment: the gentian (1 cent); the edelweiss (2 cent), a traditional symbol of Austrian identity, and the primrose (5 cent).

Austrian euro coins have the particularity to show the face value on the national obverse side also.

  • 2 Euro Austria
    € 2
  • 1 euro coin
    € 1
  • 50 euro cents
    50 cent
  • 20 euro cents coin
    20 cent
  • 10 euro cent coin
    10 cent
  • 5 euro cent coin
    5 cent
  • 2 euro cent coin
    2 cent
  • 1 euro cent coin
    1 cent