Hi all, Found this Germany coin today - G - Karlsruhe Mint 1921 - 50 Pfennig I want to share this Numista webpage information with you -
I have a complete set of that type, mostly UNC, some XF. No pictures though as non-PM coins get a low priority for that. I find the evolution (devolution?) of the aluminum coins of the early Weimar period to be very interesting as they went from 50 pfenning coins to 500 mark coins in a very short time (not to mention the higher denomination notgeld). I have a complete type set but am missing some of the date/mintmarks for some of them.
@Seattlite86 Hi my friend.. Is there someone you can ask who understands German if the Obverse actually states "Hard work pays off".. Someone mentioned to me that it might state something different. Thanks
You can frequently find these in pick boxes at coin shows. Years ago I started collected German 1pf-1M 1873-1945 (Imperial, Weimar and third reich) by date an mm. Have about 75% complete and the ones I still need are the expensive ones. If the aluminum Weimar 50pf interest you, make a list if dates and mm and see if you can put together a set. BTW: I have a number of German imperial with minor die cracks, RPM, and RPD, and filled dies, so errors are there as well
Found something: "The motto on the other side appears to read "Gich regen bringt Gegen". But if you type that into BabelFish or some other translation site, it'll come back untranslatable. That's because those capital Gs are really fancy capital Ss. "Sich regen bringt Segen" literally means "by itself, work brings blessings", but best translates to "hard work brings it's own reward". It is an old German proverb, and was used as a motto by the Weimar Republic."
I had a really big imperial German collection and then I decided I had better things to do than get 10 mintmarks for every coin for every year, so I'm really cutting down on my collection. I was about to sell about 150 or so actually.
