Austria’s annual New Year’s €5 coin, available in copper and silver versions, in 2025 celebrates the birth anniversaries of two people that left a legacy in music and dancing in Austria.

The 2025 Dance Away Uncirculated copper and Special Uncirculated .925 fine silver coins help transform the start of the new year into an inspiring experience filled with lightness and joy.

The coin’s design is a tribute to the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II, and dancer and choreographer Grete Wiesenthal.

Helmut Andexlinger designed the coin, which shows Austria’s nine provincial coats of arms on the obverse and a solo woman dancing, in a ball gown, on the reverse.

Both versions of the coin measure 28.5 millimeters in diameter. 

The copper version weighs 8.9 grams and has a mintage limit of 200,000 pieces. 

The silver coin weighs 8.41 grams and has a mintage limit of 50,000 pieces.

U.S.-based distributor Royal Scandinavian Mint offers the copper coin to collectors for $9.95.

To order the coin, or learn more, visit the firm’s website, www.rsmint.com.

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