Mother's Day - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1968 - 2 Shilling

Mother and child, the motif of the brand image, are two beings who are in joy and sorrow to each other. The child escapes to the mother, entrusts herself to her protection, relies on her help, her kindness and her understanding. The man honors and respects his mother, for to him she is the man who was there from the beginning of life and guarded him like a guardian angel above all evil. Her kindness is infinite, her words of comfort ban the suffering. Especially on Mother's Day one should acknowledge and appreciate that. Your love should not be taken for granted. On this Mother's Day not only the mothers of important Austrian artists should be remembered, who made great things in silence and therefore were role models of bourgeois life in Vienna. The nobility, too, had its model: Maria Theresia, the example of an early emancipated woman made by history. Nevertheless, she did not neglect her duties as wife and mother to the governmental duties. The Empress gave her husband, Franz von Lorraine, sixteen children to whom, according to tradition, she was a strict and at the same time benevolent mother. The Austrians venerated and loved Maria Theresa throughout her life, gave her thanks and called her the "liabe Mutter Reserle". The imperial monument in Vienna is of majestic dignity. It is also a symbol of the love of a whole nation for its Empress. The brand image shows a woman with her child.