50 schilling AUSTRIA (1996) 1000 Years of Austria

in the coin centre face value: 50 surrounded by nine Coats of Arms of states forming Austria; along the bottom edge:: SCHILLING; along the top edge: • REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH • (Republic of Austria)

in the coin centre Margrave Heinrich I in armour, holding a banner of the Babenberg dynasty and riding on a horse right; below a shield in colours of Austrian flag; behind the horse-rider along the coin's core: HEINRICH I.; along the bottom edge: 1000 JAHRE OSTARRICHI 996-1996 (1000 years of Austria 996-1996)

plain

23 X 1996

28 II 2002

Herbert Wähner, Andreas I. Zanaschka (signature ZANASCHKA on the right from the Austrian shield on the reverse)

Münze Österreich (Austrian Mint), Vienna

1996

900 000

The inscription found on the reverse Ostarrîchi means literally Eastern Borderland. This word was used for the first time in a document of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III from 996. Ostarrîchi is the source for word Österreich (Austria).