Economy of Austria coins. In 2007, in order to adopt the new common map like the rest of the Eurozone countries, Austria changed the common side of its coins. Before adopting the Euro in 2002 Austria had maintained use of the Austrian schilling which was first established in December 1924. The Schilling was abolished in the wake of the Anschluss in 1938 and has been reintroduced after the end of the World War II in November 1945. Austria has one of the richest collection of collectors' coins in the Eurozone, with face value ranging from 10 to 100 euro (although a 100,000 euro
Euro Currency Index Euro Currency Index (ECX, also EURX or EXY) was launched on 13 January 2006 by the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) and calculated back to 2001. In 2007, the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) based in Atlanta (USA) changed the name of the stock exchange in IntercontinentalExchange The index was a ratio that compared the value of the Euro by a currency basket of five currencies: US-Dollar (31.55 percent), British Pound (30.56 percent), Japanese Yen (18.91 percent), Swiss Franc (11.13 percent) and Swedish Krona (7.85 percent). The ECX was the geometrically weighted average compared to these currencies. The formula for the calculation