ECU - Servus Europa Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner, the Austrian pacifist whose 1889 novel Die Waffen nieder! galvanized the European peace movement, became in 1905 the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize — a nomination she had partly inspired Alfred Nobel himself to establish. This ECU issue belongs to the "Servus Europa" series produced in the early 1990s as Austria positioned itself toward EU membership, a period when ECU-denominated collector pieces proliferated across the continent without ever functioning as circulating currency.