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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1314416, member: 39&quot;]When that coin was issued, Brandenburg-Prussia was further east than the state of Brandenburg is today. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Preussen-GrKF.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Preussen-GrKF.jpg" rel="nofollow">This map</a> shows Brandenburg-Prussia in the 17th century. See the city of Königsberg, in the upper right area? That is where the piece was minted (the initials &quot;HS&quot; refer to the mintmaster Heinrich Sievert). Today&#039;s Brandenburg is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany (see <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Locator_map_Brandenburg_in_Germany.svg/190px-Locator_map_Brandenburg_in_Germany.svg.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Locator_map_Brandenburg_in_Germany.svg/190px-Locator_map_Brandenburg_in_Germany.svg.png" rel="nofollow">this map</a>). It is in the east of the country.</p><p><br /></p><p>Königsberg became part of the RSFSR and the Soviet Union after WW2, and the city&#039;s name has been Kaliningrad since 1946. Today the city and the district (oblast) are a Russian exclave; the neighboring countries are Lithuania in the north and Poland in the south.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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