Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="Seba79, post: 3126718, member: 70480"]Hello! Here the last one; "Die Fünf Reichsmark von 1932 D" The oak, which has always been the symbol of "German strength and steadfastness", shows in the tangle of leaves some withered branches. According to the opinion of the people, these should be the ones based on of the Treaty of Versailles (Alsace-Lorraine, Northern Schleswig, West Prussia, Upper Silesia and Poznan). A question to the artist as to whether he had consciously applied the symbolism in his coin painting resulted in the surprising answer: "The vox populi was already right about the branches on the oak. . . " The 5-mark oak is an old oak tree in Kellenhusen in the district of East Holstein in Schleswig-Holstein, which is protected as a natural monument. It is a common oak about 26 metres high with a trunk circumference of about 6 metres and an estimated age of 350 years. The oak received its name because it served Maximilian Dasio as a model for this 5 Reichsmark coin with the motif of a "oak tree" minted from 1927 to 1933. [ATTACH=full]796906[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]