2024 Austria €10 Coin Issue "The Language of Flowers: The Peony"

• Mint: Austrian Mint
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof/BU/UNC
• Issue limit: 30k/30k/130k pcs.
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver/92.5% Sterling Silver/Copper
• Diameter: 32 mm
• Weight: 16.82 grams
• Design: Kathrin Kuntner, Rebecca Wilding
• Proof version (silver, colorized) delivered in a case complete with a numbered certificate of authenticity and protective slipcase
• BU version (silver) comes in a blister pack featuring information in German and English
• UNC version (copper) comes in a plastic baggie

Additional Information

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Lasting just seven to ten days, the flowers that emerge from the spherical bud of the peony are a thing of wonder.

In the language of flowers, the peony symbolises good fortune and happiness and is associated with brightness, prosperity, boldness and honour. The flower also has other symbolic associations, including compassion, love, beauty and female fertility.

Peonies have been painted by many European artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Édouard Manet, and the opulent beauty of the peony has long been a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese literature, painting and decoration.

Depicting happiness and joy, the coin’s obverse shows a smiling young woman whose hair is adorned with laurel and pearls. To the right of her head is a curved cornucopia from which peony calyxes and coins are pouring. The coin’s reverse features three imprints of real peonies in different stages of flower, behind them a band of stylised peonies.