Coins & banknotes that have the Swastika.

Apart from the coins & banknotes from Nazi Germany,does anyone else know of any other coins & notes that have the Swastika?

Here's a fact that will be of interest,especially to the Canadian members of the board.There is a town in Ontario called Swastika,which was founded in 1911.The reason why it got that name is because of a lucky precious metal strike,& because the Swastika is a symbol of good luck.

 

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Really? I've lived in Ontario all my life and have never heard of a town called Swastika! Do you know where in Ontario this is?

 

Safe to assume that you are looking pre-1945. Hitler ruined a perfectly good symbol that had been in use for 1000s of years. No one would use it after his little stint as dictator.

 

The swastika design resembled an native american symbol. It has been years since I have visited this topic but perhaps this is why the town has used or is called this.

 

One of the theories in regards to this native amercian symbol being close to the Aryan symbol is that there is alot of evidence that at the same time that the Asians were crossing a land bridge up in Alaska, Northern Europeans were crossing their own from Northern Europe to Iceland to Greenland to the North American contintent. For political correctness reasons, this evidence which includeds DNA, skull formations, etc. is kept out of the school systems text books.
There is also evidence that the island people of the South Pacific have also came to the New World by boat in large numbers . However that is also not taught as common knowledge.

 

A group in India - Hindu, I think - is trying to reclaim the swastika. It has always been a holy symbol for them, but Hitler gave it a bad name. They want to make it respectable again. As a number of wits have noted as I've read about this over the last few days, "Good luck with that!"

 

Not on modern coins, agreed. Well, Falun Gong uses an inverse swastika, for example. And those who practice Falun Gong here in Germany will usually emphasize that for them this swastika is of course not a nazi symbol. But I cannot really imagine it being widely used in Europe again ...

Some pictures of swastikas on coins:
http://www.swastika-info.com/en/gallery.php?showtopic=munten
Ancient Greek coins with swastikas:
http://www.swastika-info.com/en/article/griechenland/1066206893.html
Swastikas on early 20c American tokens:
http://www.swastika-info.com/en/article/usa/1067107781.html

This one is interesting too, though not exactly coin related
http://www.swastika-info.com/en/article/usa/1069618500.html

Christian

 

Heck, even the name "Hitler" is outlawed in Germany (I think). There is no way the swastika in any form, would be allowed in Germany, that is for sure. I recall a recent court case where someone designed a patch that looked remotely SIMILAR to a very obscure insignia from a minor branch of the government from the Nazi era. and the court ruled against the person. I thinnk it was overturned on appeal, but barely. And the original insignia was so obscure that NO ONE would even recognize it as being related to the Nazis.

The swastka is dead everywhere, as far as I am concerned. I think the Germans would be the first ones to oppose it's resurrection, whether inverted or not.

 

Just as a matter of historical accuracy, it was Hitler who used an "inverted" symbol. The American Indian symbol, the ancient Japanese symbol, and others, all bent in the opposite direction from the Nazi version.

 

Well, I live in Germany, and the name is not in any way illegal - it's just that for obvious reasons it is not exactly popular. If I had had that name after WW2, I may well have had it changed. And in fact, you won't find a single Hitler entry in the German phone directory ...

As for displaying the swastika in public, it depends. Its "political" use is illegal in Germany, Austria and several other European countries. Publishing it for religious or scientific purposes, for example, is not. Also, it is perfectly legal to buy or sell nazi coins with swastikas.

In the street where I live (in Düsseldorf, NW) there is an early 20c house that has balcony railings which are decorated with swastikas. No problem since there is no political "message". But I don't think that anybody would decorate a house this way nowadays. So yes, I absolutely agree, the swastika is "burned" (despite any efforts of explaining that it is not a genuine nazi symbol), and finding it on post-1945 coins is practically impossible, I think.

Christian

 

Town of Swastika.

Jello_g,if you want to find out where in Ontario the town of Swastika is,
you could try typing in 'Town of Swastika' into www.google.ca .There you will find your answer.

Aidan.

 

I am sure you are correct, but I was basing mya perspective on the most famous use of the symbol.

 

I live in Germany, too, and here in Munich you won't find anything resembling a swastika on display. The closest we come to (that I have seen) is a the former Luftwaffe HQ with German Helmets carved in stone all arounf the top floor on the facade of the building - there are small holes on them - probably there were flags or swastiksa as one time.

I wonder if that house in your town had those symbols before the 1930s? I am surprised it escaped the de-Nazification after the war. The Allies were pretty strict on that stuff in general.

Antique and coin dealers do sell pre-1946 items with it, but I am pretty sure the manufacture of Nazi era designs is illegal. Probably there are exemptions for theater, movies, eductaion, etc., but I am pretty sure you can't make Nazi flags and sell them to the general public. You would know better than me, though, since you might have grown up with the rules grilled into you. Originals are legal for sure, though (contrary to what eBay says).

An interesting thing about the Hitler name. I knew it did not exist, but I wasn't use if it was illegal. Although, I think if you wanted to change your name to Hitler you might get turned down by the court.

 

Bavaria, as I'm sure you know, was both the heart of Nazism and in the American zone. Once Patton was dismissed, the Americans were particularly aggressive about denazification. Bavaria was at the center of that. The British, who occupied Dusseldorf, didn't denazify with the same zeal as the Soviets, French, or Americans. So I could imagine that an innocuous balcony railing lucky enough to survive Allied bombing might not be destroyed. In the late 1940s the British were bankrupt. Rebuilding buildings that had been destroyed cost enough. If a building was still usable, it might have been left well enough alone, particularly if it wasn't a government building or the home of a major political or military figure.

I saw an article in the Washington Post a while back about the descendants of the brother of Alois Hitler (Adolf's father). Apparently, they were so ashamed at what their first cousin Adolf had done that they swore never to have children of their own so that the Hitler name (at least one close to Adolf) should perish from the earth.

 

I thought it would be a neat idea to drive out there and take a snapshot beside a sign of the town, but it turns out this place is way way up north. The round trip drive would probably take several days so it's out of the question! Oh well..

 

India has issued a circulating commemorative coin
depicting a Swastika some time in the last few years.

Jello_g,you could try seeing if Swastika is on an air
route.If it is,then you could catch a plane.

Aidan.

 

Here is a link with information about the origin of the Swastika;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4183467.stm .

Aidan.

 

I saw a Vietnamese coin of ANNAM the hse a swastika , and also a coin from Bhutan the has the same simbol.

 

There's a town/village called Swastika near the western border of Ontario, approx. 496 km north of Toronto.

As far as I remember Sri Lanka issued a gold coin with swastika in 2003 or 2004. I'll try to find it in one the older coin magazines.


Edit: found the coin

 

"Approximately"? ;-)

Anyway, thanks for the image! Interesting coin ...

Christian