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<p>[QUOTE="Dajo, post: 11617027, member: 85272"]Dear Fred,</p><p>The history of these pieces is difficult to reconstruct. In the years of the great inflation several cities adopted countermarks on existing coins to guarantee sufficient 'value' to make payments, or made their own coins. However, shortly hereafter also fantasy coins were struck, most notable by Bruno Röttinger, a German numismatist. These are notably coins with a new design, of coins copied from a design previously issues by the autorities.</p><p>Walter Funk, in his <i>Die deutschen Notmünzen</i>, distinguishes several types of fake coins:</p><p>1. Restrike with the original stamp on original coin plates, which do not differ from the original,</p><p>2. Restrike with the original stamp on not original coins plates, which differ from the original in diameter and/or thickness,</p><p>3. Issues with the wrong stamp coupling, that is, mostly the obverse stamp is the original, which was coupled with another reverse stamp</p><p>4. Issues that differ from the original in form and material,</p><p>5. Emergency coins without the official perforation,</p><p>6. Emergency coins in which the nickel plating is missing or has been specially applied,</p><p>7. Emergency coins for which a new stamp was specially cut.</p><p>The specific countermark as seen in my Danzig 5 Gulden does not fall in one of these categories. So it may be official, or it may be another 'forgery'. At least it must originate in the years of the great inflation, so in some sense it is still a historic coin ;-)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dajo, post: 11617027, member: 85272"]Dear Fred, The history of these pieces is difficult to reconstruct. In the years of the great inflation several cities adopted countermarks on existing coins to guarantee sufficient 'value' to make payments, or made their own coins. However, shortly hereafter also fantasy coins were struck, most notable by Bruno Röttinger, a German numismatist. These are notably coins with a new design, of coins copied from a design previously issues by the autorities. Walter Funk, in his [I]Die deutschen Notmünzen[/I], distinguishes several types of fake coins: 1. Restrike with the original stamp on original coin plates, which do not differ from the original, 2. Restrike with the original stamp on not original coins plates, which differ from the original in diameter and/or thickness, 3. Issues with the wrong stamp coupling, that is, mostly the obverse stamp is the original, which was coupled with another reverse stamp 4. Issues that differ from the original in form and material, 5. Emergency coins without the official perforation, 6. Emergency coins in which the nickel plating is missing or has been specially applied, 7. Emergency coins for which a new stamp was specially cut. The specific countermark as seen in my Danzig 5 Gulden does not fall in one of these categories. So it may be official, or it may be another 'forgery'. At least it must originate in the years of the great inflation, so in some sense it is still a historic coin ;-)[/QUOTE]
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