Other Commemorative Coins (Collector's Coins)
Austria has a large collection of euro commemorative coins, mainly in Silver and Gold, but they also use other materials (like Niobium for example). Their face value range from 5 euro to 100 euro. This is mainly done as a legacy of old national practice of minting Gold and Silver coins. These coins are not really intended to be used as means of payment, so generally they do not circulate. Here are some samples:
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Gold, 50 euro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2006)
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Silver and Niobium, 25 euro, European Satellite Navigation (2006)
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Silver, 20 euro, The Austrian Merchant Navy (2006)
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“No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)