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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 658001, member: 39&quot;]Forgot to mention this:</p><p><br /></p><p>The city of Karlsruhe (then in Baden, now Baden-Württemberg) was founded in 1715, so your piece will be from 1965. In that year the Federal Republic of Germany did not issue any commemorative coins, so what you have is a medal, I think. May have been produced at the mint in Karlsruhe but I don&#039;t think it is a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And another family name map, this time for &quot;von der Schmitt&quot;: <a href="http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/von+der+schmitt.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/von+der+schmitt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/von+der+schmitt.html</a></p><p>The highlighted area is Düren county, in North Rhine Westphalia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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