Album - German Commemoratives 1922-1957

Thanks a lot Mad ! I have a few more on the way

 

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Hi boys, here is another on the way ! The 3 Reichsmark 1927, "400th Anniversary of Philipps University in Marburg"

 

Nice coin! That university in Marburg, by the way, is the world's oldest still existing "Lutheran founded" university. Established only ten years after the reformation ...

The CoA is not that of the city, by the way, nor the university's seal. It is a somewhat abstracted version of Landgrave Philipp I's seal, see here: http://regiowiki.hna.de/images/8/82/Philippstein-0283.jpg

Christian

 

Seba79 Thanks! It's a good collection.

 

Hello everyone! After a long time with no news, here are 3 more pieces !

 

Which ones do you still need post WWII? Also, what grade are you looking for, for these, or are you just trying to find coins to fill the holes?

 

The only post WWII is the Eichendorff 5 Mark.
I do not look for coins in super high grades, neither "filled the holes" I try to complete the series with coins in normal conditions,
some coins conditions better than others. . .

 

Nice coins! Both the Lessing and the Luther coin were issued in two denominations (Lessing 3 and 5 RM, Luther 2 and 5 RM). What is interesting about the font used for the Luther pieces is that in Fraktur typefaces (which the nazis initially preferred) the word "Deutsches" should have been written with a long s after the t. The designer argued that this was a matter of artistic license.

The Germanisches Museum piece is the very first commemorative coin issued by this country. Its "image side", the one that does not have the country name and face value, shows an old fibula or brooch from the 5th (?) century, one of the exhibits in Nürnberg. The coin was a little delayed by the way - it is dated 1952 but came out in September 1953: The artist's original design had to be modified ...

Christian

 

Nice thread. I somehow missed it earlier. I have a complete set of the mark-denominated commemmoratives after 1933 but am missing most of the Weimar ones. I try to pick up one or two of those a year. I'd never seen that album before but, as been pointed out, it doesn't really seem to be a well-planned coverage.

 

This coin belongs to the Weimar Republic. It's dated 1928 and marks the one thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Dinkelsbuhl. Denomination is 3 Reichsmark. KM # 59 which happens to be my lucky number. Hope you like it.

 

Very nice coin, and one of the rarest in this series.

 

Well, if you look good, you will see that only one focuses in the commemorative coins:
All of the Republic of Weimar; the commemorative ones of the III Reich, The church, Schiller and M. Luther iusses, and the first ones of the Federal Republic.
Alone commemorative pieces, and since the album was done in the first years of the decade of 1960, perhaps have some sense..

 

Thanks for the complete info Christian

Btw, do you know why this coin (The Núremberg commemorative) its too scarce? Perhaps in some moment they melted down some quantity?

 

Here its the last one for now; the 5 Mark 1955, 150th Anniversary of death of Friedrich von Schiller.

 

Don't think that any were melted - well, certainly not a significant number. But they made 200,000 Germanisches Museum coins only, and 1,240 of them in proof. (Same with the Schiller coin, except the proof figure is 1,217.)

Back then, not too many cared about such coins. For quite a few people 5 DM was a lot of money at that time, the country was still recovering from WW2, and many people had other priorities than putting such a piece aside. Later, when collecting coins became more popular again, there just weren't many early commems in good or excellent condition left ...

Christian

 

Hi all , these is the last one, commemorative issue of Centennial - Birth of Joseph von Eichendorff, the 5 silver Deutsche Mark 1957 J (Hamburg) Mintage 198.000 coins and aprox. 2000 in proof condition.

 

In this point, with 22 of 40 obtained coins, I did a review of the value from page to page, the remaining coins are really expensive, especially those who are on the page two of the album.
I have a number in my head of the finished album, but someone can give me an approximate value? To compare numbers? Which would be the approximate value of finished something like that?

Thanks for the comments guys!

 

Arrived today!

 

Do you consult Krause Catalog ?