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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1262628, member: 5233&quot;]Interesting, I didn&#039;t know that.&nbsp; I actually know very little about the Nazi paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting fact...we actually modified the German coinage once the war ended and occupation began.&nbsp; We obviously didn&#039;t want the Nazi coinage production continued (I doubt the Germans did either)...so their coin designs were quickly changed and &quot;allied occupied coinage&quot; was issued.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are examples.&nbsp; The first was a standard Third Reich issued zinc 1pf dated 1944-A.&nbsp; These were issued from 1940-1945.&nbsp; Notice the Swastika very prominently on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1944-A1Reichspfennig.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once we controlled Germany, we modified the design to remove the Swastika.&nbsp; There was a pattern 1pf (dated 1944-D) which was produced that simply had the Swastika missing.&nbsp; There is only one known example of this coin.&nbsp; Then, the pattern was again modified and a tail was added to the eagle to fill the gap.&nbsp; These were issued from 1945-1948 in denominations of 1pf, 5pf, and 10pf.&nbsp; Here is an example from my collection...I&#039;m sorry for the poor image of the reverse.&nbsp; It is a 5pf and dated 1948-A.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b97/RichieB16/1948-A5ReichspfennigAlliedOccupatio.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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