Just added a new commemorative to the set. Its an 1863 Taler that commemorates the 50th Anniversary - Liberation of Germany. Mintage of 20,000.
Another nice one! One question, why does it say gold on it? It's not made of gold, is it? It doesn't look like it to me but I've not seen any coins from this period in person so I could be way off.
The following will explain it better than I can. The Thaler was the currency of Bremen until 1873. It was divided into 72 Grote, each of 5 Schwaren. Until 1863, the Bremen Thaler was on a silver standard, containing 1/13½ Cologne mark of silver. After 1863, the Bremen Thaler, unlike the Vereinsthaler, went over to a gold standard and was worth 1 4/21 grams of gold (420 Thaler to the 500 gram "pound"). In 1873, the Thaler was replaced by the mark. As both currencies were based on gold, an exact conversion was carried out, with 1 Thaler = 3 9/28 Mark.
Thanks! That does seem kind of confusing though. And here I said nobody ever uses fractions in real life
Saw that beauty auctioned as well. Congratulations regandon, you have set the bar very high for such eye appeal.
I really like your latest additions! This one and also the russian and finnish. This school year is going to be hard for me in terms of money due to all the traveling, furniture, and the like, but next year I'll start being paid in euros and THEN I'll be on the lookout for these!! :mouth:
