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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3023366, member: 39&quot;]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 &quot;Deutsches&quot; should have been written with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s" rel="nofollow">long s</a> after the t. The designer argued that this was a matter of artistic license.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Germanisches Museum piece is the very first commemorative coin issued by this country. Its &quot;image side&quot;, the one that does not have the country name and face value, shows an old <a href="http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/FG1608" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/FG1608" rel="nofollow">fibula</a> 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&#039;s original design had to be modified ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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