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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1231957, member: 39&quot;]Happens to all of us. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> By the way, &quot;restruck without authority&quot; is correct and yet not quite right: Since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in May 1949, the new coins - as from 1950 - were to have the country name (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) instead of &quot;Bank Deutscher Länder&quot;. The mint in Karlsruhe, however, produced those 30,000 error pieces - which were then declared legal tender by some special announcement in the government bulletin. (In excellent condition, that &quot;error&quot; piece is worth about €800 these days, but beware of manipulations.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The other mints (plus Karlsruhe/G once the error was found) used the country name for the 1950 pieces - and yes, that combination is not rare at all. In fact, since 1950 was a frozen date for the 50 Pf coins minted between 1950 and 1965, that is the most common combo. Still a nice design, I think. The woman planting an oak tree (thus symbolizing the &quot;new life&quot; and reconstruction after WW2) is Gerda Jo Werner, the wife of the designer Richard M. Werner. He was born in 1903 and died in 1949, thus never experienced the later &quot;success&quot; of his design.</p><p><br /></p><p>His wife however, born in 1914, died in 2004 shortly before her 90th birthday. The coin design was based on nude figure drawings that Richard Werner had made of his (then pregnant) wife. For the coin he added a light dress and that little tree. Interestingly, until the 1980s most people had no idea who the woman on the coin was. <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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