2005 Austria €10 Silver Coin "Theater & Opera"

• Mint: Austrian Mint
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof/BU
• Limit: 60,000/40,000
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver
• Diameter: 32 mm
• Weight: 16 grams
• Artist: Th. Pesendorfer/H. Wähner
• Proof in jewel box with numbered certificate of authenticity. BU delivered in informative blister pack.

Additional Information

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This issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the re-opening of the rebuilt National Theater (Burgtheater) and National Opera.

It is hard to convey the significance of these re-openings in a city as proud of its cultural heritage as Vienna. It symbolized to people both at home and abroad a return to normality, of putting the horrors of war behind one, of Vienna once again assuming a leading role in world culture.

The obverse depicts the two classically designed buildings; the National Theatre juxtaposed slightly behind the Opera House. Two classic symbols of the theatre, the masks of comedy and tragedy, framed by the stage are on the reverse of the coin. Also, on the reverse are the words “Wiedereroeffnung von Burg and Oper 1955,” (Re-opening of the National Theatre and Opera, 1955).