" AUSTRIAN LOTTERY."

MNH ~ Miniature Sheet !

"How lucky would the monkey be, if he could play the lottery" - this aphorism from Goethes "Faust I." shows us the great popularity of lotteries in former times.

Games of hazard are known since primitive time: They keep us vivid and amuse us, we can see a tiny chance and we want to use it!

The reason for this souvenir sheet is the 250 anniversary of lotto in austria. In autumn 1752 the first public drawing with numbers from 1 to 90 had taken place in Vienna ...

Year: 2002.