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I want to Show you in this Topic my favorite coin for 2014. It's a coin from Austria with a face value of 25 Euro. The coin is made from is silver and niobium. The most beautiful thing about this coin is in my opinion the color. I don't know how they do it, but the niobium is colored green and blue. Here is a Picture of the coin:   What do you think about this coin and which is your favorite coin for 2014? Edited by swiss89
01/17/2014 5:01 pm
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Interesting design there no doubt, I've seen the colored in silver rounds but I think that is just plastic. Certainly catches the eye.
My favorite coin of 2014 is the first silver find of the year... once I get it I'll tell you all about it, until then my favorite is the 1938 nickel in fair to good condition I just got a few days ago.
If you meant what is the coin dated 2014 that I like the most... if I could get an American Silver Eagle for face value that would be it.
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I think the whole series of Nobium coins from Muenze Oesterreich are beautiful and works of art. I also think that they are very under collected and under appreciated. But the mintages are so low trying to back fill the series is expensive.
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I don't know how they do it, but the niobium is colored green and blue. The process is called anodizing. The colour is not actually a paint or dye; the colour comes from the same effect that colours a toned coin, or a soap bubble, or iridescent butterfly wings: thin-film interference. In the case of niobium, the "thin layer" is created by carefully controlling the thickness of an electrolytically-generated oxide layer. The process is corrosive, but the corrosion stops as soon as the electricity is switched off. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Yes, nice piece. And it is the first one in that silver-niobium series which combines two colors in the pill. What I find a little disappointing with regard to Austrian coins is that the mint has almost completely stopped issuing "jubilee" coins (pieces that the refer to the 100th or 200th anniversary of some birthday or other event). Pretty much everything they have these days is thematic series ...
Christian
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Maybe nothing happened 100 or 200 years ago  This evenings news broadcast is being replaced by music, because nothing happened, move along nothing to see here.  |
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Interesting design there no doubt, I've seen the colored in silver rounds but I think that is just plastic As others have pointed out it is not plastic it is the metal Niobium which is anodized to produced different colors( A similar thing can be done with Titanium. I have been collecting this series for a number of years and have a example from each year ( from 2003). What do I think of this one....well the Vienna mint has outdone themselves this time they have managed to anodize the center pill to produce two different colors. A couple of years ago I stopped buying NCLT as I decided it was a waste of money. The only exception being the €25.00 silver niobium coins. I am really looking forward to picking my example up from the bank when its issued(this coming week I understand) Edited by austrokiwi
01/18/2014 11:06 am
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Maybe nothing happened 100 or 200 years ago This evenings news broadcast is being replaced by music, because nothing happened, move along nothing to see here. I don't think 1914 will stand up too well in Austrian memory likewise 1918 etc. I suspect there looking forward to the 300 year commerations |
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Unfortunately when the first two coins were issued I didn't collect any coins. I started a few years later.
I have the complete series except the 2003/2004. Now these two coins are really expensive to buy and I don0t wand to spend some hundred Dollar just on These two coins. Hopefully they get a bit cheaper in the next years.
I have already ordered the new one at my bank.
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Is there any possibility of a Centennial of the First Austrian Republic event happening, or would that not be a happy thing to commemorate?
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Is there any possibility of a Centennial of the First Austrian Republic event happening, or would that not be a happy thing to commemorate? The first republic occurred with the end of the first world war, it ended with the Anchluss and in the middle of that period there was an effective civil war |
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When it comes to celebrating the beginning of WW1, Austria and Germany are in a different position than the UK for example. Another jubilee, however (which may be less relevant in the Commonwealth countries) is the 25th anniversary of the end of the "Iron Curtain". And that is actually the only Austrian coin this year that does refer to a specific date. (Unfortunately it will be a surcharged silver proof piece only.) Other theoretical occasions could have been Bertha von Suttner who died 100 years ago - OK, she is on the €2 circulation coin too, so what :) - or the Vienna Congress that began 200 years ago.
And yes, the new silver-niobium coin will officially be issued on Wednesday. Will get mine in Berlin (WMF) though. I am sure that the Austrian Mint - guest of honor this year - will have a few there. :)
Christian
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I really like this coin! Is it out for the public to purchase? If so, anywhere other than ebay to buy it? |
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