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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Texas John, post: 1124628, member: 25813&quot;]I think knowledge that helps explain an entity like Nazi Germany is important for people to know. Coins tell you much about a country. When you look at the coins of pre-WWI imperial Germany, you know the country is wealthy and self-confident. The coins that follow the war track the resulting impoverishment and instability that came with losing it. The swastikas that become ubiquitous on coins after 1933 show the German currency restored (silver coins again circulating) and the entrenched power of the Nazi party. The coins are debased again as WWII gets underway, then gaps in production and sudden design changes occur as Germany loses that war, too. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have an immediate post war German coin made with the same dies used by the Nazis, but with the swastika polished away. The end of the war as told by one bit of zinc.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can get that &quot;history in your hand&quot; feeling from coins with stories like those to tell. I think for most of us, experiencing that feeling is one of the reasons we collect coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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