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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3401933, member: 39&quot;]Since we are &quot;talking&quot; about Künker, here is another story I just came across: This <a href="https://cdn.mdr.de/thueringen/mitte-west-thueringen/weimar/goldmuenze-klassik-stiftung-100-resimage_v-variantBig1xN_w-1152.jpg?version=40351" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdn.mdr.de/thueringen/mitte-west-thueringen/weimar/goldmuenze-klassik-stiftung-100-resimage_v-variantBig1xN_w-1152.jpg?version=40351" rel="nofollow">gold coin</a> is now back at a museum in Weimar, TH thanks to him or them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is one of more than 200 coins that were stolen during the short US occupation of the area in May 1945; some of them were later auctioned (New York, 1950) while others are still missing. This piece, a so-called alchemist taler dated 1687, had been in Canada for a long time, was at a Künker auction last year and brought €28,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>One side of the coin shows Duke Friedrich I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, the other side features a phoenix. Seems that the duke had the idea of making gold using alchemy, hence the name, but this is an actual gold coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> When Künker learned about the origin of the coin, he made an agreement with the seller and the buyer, paid the amount himself and returned the coin to the Classical Weimar Foundation.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Article in German <a href="https://www.mdr.de/thueringen/mitte-west-thueringen/weimar/goldmuenze-klassik-stiftung-104.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mdr.de/thueringen/mitte-west-thueringen/weimar/goldmuenze-klassik-stiftung-104.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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