Some of you seem to be trying to go beyond the allowed. Next over the line will close the thread. This applies to both description/remarks or image.
I hope this is not deemed "over the edge". Well known medal from the first world war - struck originally by the Germans to justify the sinking of the Lusitania for carrying contraband, and then reproduced by the British as propaganda against the Germans for killing innocent women and children. This is the British copy. Turns out the Germans were right - recent dives on the Lusitania have confirmed it was carrying munitions as well as passengers, and so by the International laws of the time, was a legitimate target. Definitely creepy.
Don't you just love such generalizations? Here is another piece - not creepy by design but by historical context so to say. This coin celebrates 40 years of the German Democratic Republic (1989) and quotes the first words of the country's national anthem - "Risen from ruins and facing the future". Putting more anthem text on the coin would have been difficult anyway, as the fourth line of the GDR anthem referred to the "united fatherland". (So it was played but not sung on official occasions.) What is kind of creepy is the "facing the future" on the coins: Half a year later the old GDR regime came to an end. Christian
Because posting an image of a world coin approved for the public, circulated for decades and available in an auction would be such a terrible thing.... oh, the hypocrisy.
I can understand editing the remarks, but Doug said we could post coins with nudity as long as it's not explicit, ie: fertility god coins.
If you are unable or unwilling to see that the post was deleted due to your sex related remarks on the coin, which I am sure appeared nowhere in the auction writeup or in any coin catalog, then I think you will have difficulty on this forum. You should read the forum's rules. The coin was not the problem!
The artist’s name is Patrick Shanahan, and he does more macabre style hobo nickels. These are really more up my alley versus the trains, and bearded figures you usually see carved into nickels.
