2024 Austria Silver €5 New Year's: Lucky Leap

The extra day is a day with great potential on which you can allow yourself a little more "me time," dedicate more time than usual to someone else, or do something you have always wanted to do. Or if you have resolved to tackle something completely new by the end of the year, why not use the extra day for that? The extra day in a leap year keeps the calendar year synchronized with the solar year and thus with the cosmic order. You should accept it as a heavenly gift and treat it as an extra portion of luck. The New Year Coin 2024 is designed to remind you that this day is not like any other and should be enjoyed amid all the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Coin Highlights:

• Contains 1/4 oz of silver.
• Mintage of 50,000 coins.
• Packaged in an illustrated blister pack.
• Obverse: The coin’s obverse shows the coats of arms of the nine provinces of Austria.
• Reverse: The reverse of the nine-sided coin is dedicated to the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to bring the calendar back into line with the solar year. Pope Gregory XIII features on the right edge of the coin next to a large, flame-haired human manifestation of the sun. Below the sun is the calendar page for the month of February showing the 29th of February – the extra day. At the top is the zodiac sign Pisces, which corresponds to late February.
• Guaranteed by the Austrian government.

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This coin is a fantastic New Year's addition to any collection. Add this 2024 Austria Silver €5 New Year's Lucky Leap coin to your cart today!

Austrian Mint
APMEX is proud to offer products from the Munze Österreich, or Austrian Mint. With more than 800 years of coin-production experience, the Austrian Mint in Vienna has become world-renowned for coin production and precious metals processing. As a subsidiary of the Austrian Central Bank, the Austrian Mint's foremost task is to produce all of the circulating euro coinage for Austria. But the mint also strikes an impressive range of collector coins and medals, along with producing some of the world's best-selling bullion coins. In addition to the popular Silver Philharmonic coins, the Austrian Mint produces many beautiful commemorative coins to honor people, places and events of its history. More than 400 million coins are produced at the Austrian Mint each year.