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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 60320, member: 669&quot;]Well, two things are certain - <ul> <li>It&#039;s a medallion/token and not a coin, and <br /> </li> <li>it was not produced in 1807, or at any time prior to West Germany&#039;s resurgance as an economic power quite a few years after the post-World War II U.S. Marshall Plan had worked its magic.</li> </ul><p>The symbols of the dollar, yen, pound and Deutsch Mark depicted inside the shield on the reverse(?) were not the four primary world currencies in 1807.&nbsp; In fact, neither the yen nor the Deutsch Mark existed, and the U.S. was definitely not a great world economic power.</p><p><br /></p><p>The yen was officially created by an act of the Meiji Government in 1871, although coins dated the previous year were minted and circulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Deutsch Mark&quot; made its appearance on coins even more recently, on the 1950 1 Mark (KM#110) coin of the German Federal Republic (&quot;West Germany&quot;).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1807 the unified German Empire was still 74 years in the future, and the Austro-Hungarian Thaler was the dominant Germanic currency.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Imperial coins, when they came along, used simply &quot;Mark&quot;.&nbsp; &quot;Reich&#039;s Mark&quot; was used by both the post-WW I Weimar Republic, and Hitler&#039;s Third Reich.&nbsp; The German Democratic Republic (&quot;East Germany&quot;) went back to the Imperial &quot;Mark&quot; during its nearly half-century existence.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Edited to add: </b>Perhaps you have someone&#039;s attempt to reinvigorate the concept of Dana Bickford expressed in 1874 pattern coins, although that doesn&#039;t explain the 1807 date. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/basscatalogs/BASSSALE1/b1-2-m.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/basscatalogs/BASSSALE1/b1-2-m.htm" rel="nofollow">&gt;&gt;Click here&lt;&lt;</a> and then scroll between half and two-thirds of the way down the page, for pictures and descriptions of patterns formerly in the collection of Harry W. Bass Jr.&nbsp; Bickford&#039;s idea, which never caught on, was to have multiple national denominations on the same coin - somewhat of a precursor to the Euro. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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