2010 Austria €5 Silver Coin "Grossglockner"

• Mint: Austrian Mint
• Denomination: €5
• Quality: BU/UNC
• Limit: 50,000/250,000
• Alloy: 80% Silver
• Diameter: 28.5 mm
• Weight: 8 grams
• BU version comes in a printed, colorful blister pack
• UNC version comes in a plastic baggie

Additional Information

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This issue marks the 75th anniversary of the opening of the high alpine road over the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road enables the crossing from the province of Salzburg to Carinthia in the south by motorcar, bus, motorbike or even bicycle. The most famous of all alpine roads leads one through the Hohe Tauern National Park to Austria’s highest mountain, the Grossglockner, and its glacier, the Pasterze. The engineer Franz Wallack planned a road that would fit in harmoniously with its natural surroundings, a feature that has turned out to be a great blessing for the national park. On 48 kilometers of panorama roadway with 36 hairpin bends climbing to a height of 2,504 meters, one travels through a fantastic world of giant mountains.

The nine-sided silver coin shows the Grossglockner High Alpine Road winding its way through the mountain landscape. An elegant “old timer” from the days of the original opening in 1935 and a sports car of our own time symbolize the 75 years of the famous roadway’s existence. The other side displays the face value within a circle of the nine shields of the federal provinces of Austria.