NAZI Germany

With swastika

 

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Bonus question: Who wrote the music for the German National Anthem and from what piece does it come? @chrisild, for obvious reasons, you're ineligible to answer.

 

I would pay a tidy sum to get one of those in BU. I'm working on a 1938 date set in BU. I have the 5 Mark, 2 Mark, and 10 Reichspfenning.

 

By Joseph Haydn in 1796 originally written for an anthem for the birthday of Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. Haydnwas Austrian. Not sure what piece it was from but it's known as The Song of the Germans or Song of Germany. East Germany does not use it. Since the end of WWII only the 3rd stanza has been used. It was chosen as the national anthem in 1922.

 

Excellent! It is from Haydn's appropriately named "Emperor String Quartet" Op.76. The third movement. When you hear it played by a really talented string quartet, it is quite charming, not at all "imposing". Each instrument takes a turn carrying the melody line. My personal favorite recording is a rather old vinyl LP with the Drolc Quartet performing.

 

Sometimes vinyl sounds a lot better than a CD. I love the Andrew Sisters and CD's are great but to hear them on vinyl with the scratches and background noise is wonderful. Makes me feel like I was in the 40's even through it's before my time.

PS. What did I win? lol

 

My at least temporary redoubling of my efforts to not troll you for being a bullionista. Nobody else gets that forbearance.

 

How much would you pay for this one?

 

I already have a '38 5 Rpf in a similar condition, sorry.

 

Thanks, I needed that laugh.

 

Oops. It's the second movement of the third piece of Opus 76.

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OK, even if won't win anything let me add that, as far as the lyrics are concerned, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote them on the (then British!) island of Helgoland. Hoffmann was a patriotic democrat; his idea, expressed in the "Lied der Deutschen" (Song of the Germans) or Deutschlandlied, was that a united democratic Germany would be a better Germany. He was also somewhat anti-French and anti-Semitic but had his problems with the authoritarian Prussian government too ...

As for the present (those who are interested in Nazi Germany only may ignore the rest of the post), the third verse of the Deutschlandlied - "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" - is the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany. This year in October, by the way, the Deutschlandlied will be commemorated on a €20 collector coin.

Christian

 

He's an economist. It may be subject to "seasonal adjustments."

 

Careful there "nines", you're still subject to normal levels of ridicule for believing in "hard money".

 

That's ok. Thanks for answering me.

 

There it is. .900 silber, 0.399 oz. troy. Bigger'n a U.S. SBA/Sac, smaller'n a U.S. half dollar, but THICK. KM# 94. Hindenburg was not only a disaster in Lakehurst, NJ. He was a real person.

 

I have this coin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg

 

I see your 38 and raise you a 37.

 

50 reichspfennig with swastika and without.