2020 20.74g Austria Silver 2020 22.42gm Austria Silver 100 Years Salzburg Festival PP

To celebrate this major cultural event which is constantly in the process of reinventing itself, the Austrian Mint has come up with this unique centenary coin that features a never-before-seen innovative coin design.

On August 22, 1920, the director Max Reinhardt staged Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s morality play Jedermann in Salzburg’s Domplatz (Cathedral Square) for the first time and in doing so founded the Salzburg Festival. Since 1926, the play has been a permanent feature of the festival program, a tradition interrupted only during the Nazi regime. Now one of the world’s leading opera, theater and classical music festivals, the Salzburg Festival celebrates its centenary in 2020.

At Salzburg, the best is often not good enough. This gives the festival cultural relevance, which comes from its strength of tradition but also allows new directions to be explored and puts the avant-garde center stage. No other festival offers such a broad spectrum of cultural variety, from Mozart, the "genius loci," to classical productions and innovative performances.

Coin Highlights:

Contains .666 oz of fine Silver.

Packaged with a mint box along with a certificate of authenticity.

Mintage of 30,000 coins.

Obverse: The reverse of the coin has the appearance of a plate with a flat inner part.

Reverse: Portrays an avante-garde representation of the Salzburg Festival.

Guaranteed by the Austrian government.