Austrian Treasure Hunt

"Treasure hunters armed with shovels and metal detectors have descended on a sleepy Austrian town in search of up to €5 million ($6.18 million) said to have been buried there by a fraudulent German financial advisor, says ORF, the Austrian broadcasting corporation.

The fortune is believed to have been buried in aluminium cases by Augustine G. in wooded mountainous areas surrounding the small town of Ebbs near the German border, say police."

Read more HERE.

Image Credits AFP/GETTY

Weekly World Coin Post: AUSTRIA

Welcome back to my MD blog! It's been nearly a month since I've made any notable post, and what better way to get back into it than by bringing by my Weekly World Coin Post, which was on hiatus.

I have a the next few weeks already lined up with coins and info regarding them. But I figured I'd start it off with the first letter of the alphabet, and go with Austria.

Early on in Austrian coinage, they had what was known as Corona's, and no, no relation to the beer. One Corona was broken up into 100 Heller. Nowadays of course they are part of the EU, so they use the Euro. But in between those two currencies, Austria quite a few other coinage like Ducats, Kronen, Thaler, Groschen and Schilling.

With no further adieu, the few coins I own.

Center Left:
1978 10 Schilling Copper-Nickel Plated Nickel 26mm Woman of Wachau

Top & Bottom Row Obverse + Reverse Left to Right:
1972 5 Schilling Copper-Nickel 23.5mm Lippizaner Stallion
1965 1 Schilling Aluminum-Bronze 22.5mm Edelweiss Flower
1966 50 Groschen Aluminum-Bronze 19.44mm
1955 10 Groschen Aluminum 20mm
1965 2 Groschen Aluminum 18mm

For more information on the Austrian Schilling, please click HERE. And to learn a little more about the images depicted on the coins, please visit the links above as provided.