Austria 25 Euro Silver Niobium Coin 2003, 700 Years of City of Hall in Tyrol
The charming first coin in the Austrian Mint’s innovative Silver Niobium 25 euro series, 700 Years of Hall in Tyrol ingeniously introduces the two elements that combine to set this unique nine-coin series apart from the rest.
The coin commemorates the charter granted over 700 years ago to the town of Hall in the Tyrol, where the first large silver coin, the Guldiner, was struck in 1486. The die used to make the Guldiner features in the blue niobium core of the coin’s reverse, a reference to Hall’s historical role in the minting business as well as the metal that forms the outer ring of all the coins in the Silver Niobium series. A relatively new find only discovered in 1801, niobium plays an important role in the space industry, something acknowledged on the coin’s reverse, where a satellite maps the town of Hall from space.
Designer: Herbert Wähner & Helmut Andexlinger
Mint: Münze Österreich AG
Value: €25; Market value: €169.95
Alloy: Ag 900 (Silver) & 7.15g Niobium; Quantity: 50,000; Quality: UNC
Issued: 29 January 2003; Diameter: 34 mm (1.34 in); Weight: 17.15 g (0.60 oz; 0.55 ozt)
Hall in Tirol is a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria. Located at an altitude of 574 m, about 5 km (3 mi) east of the state's capital Innsbruck in the Inn valley, it has a population of about 13,000 (Jan 2013).