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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3133284, member: 39&quot;]I do, but that is still not the way Coin Talk is set up. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Anyway, here is another old locomotive, the Saxonia from 1838, on a GDR 5M coin from 1988. While the Adler (used for the 1835 Nürnberg-Fürth connection) was from the UK, this one was built in Saxony.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]799624[/ATTACH] </p><p>The &quot;first German long distance railway&quot; that the inscription mentions was actually opened one year later, in 1839. And while the Saxonia was one of the locomotives participating in the opening, the first ones were UK made. Maybe the investors trusted them a little more ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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