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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1865356, member: 39"]Mönchengladbach is a city (population ~250,000) in the neighborhood, about 20 minutes from here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> What you see is a city view "um 1856", i.e. what the inner city looked like around 1856. Not sure whether there was any particular event in that year, but I am pretty darn sure the medal is not <i>from</i> that year ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The CoA on the other side is from the "old" city of Mönchengladbach. On 1 Jan 1975 it merged with some neighboring places; since then it has had a different one. So I suppose that this piece was issued before the end of 1974.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1865356, member: 39"]Mönchengladbach is a city (population ~250,000) in the neighborhood, about 20 minutes from here. :) What you see is a city view "um 1856", i.e. what the inner city looked like around 1856. Not sure whether there was any particular event in that year, but I am pretty darn sure the medal is not [I]from[/I] that year ... The CoA on the other side is from the "old" city of Mönchengladbach. On 1 Jan 1975 it merged with some neighboring places; since then it has had a different one. So I suppose that this piece was issued before the end of 1974. Christian[/QUOTE]
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