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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 923873, member: 19456&quot;]As some of you guys know from my past posts, I really like German coins. I think they have really interesting designs, and Germany ranks 4th most coins in my collection. About 1/4th of them are WWII era that were brought back from the war by one of my relatives who served there, although it&#039;s unknown who as 4 served in WWII and we have no way to know who brought them back. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Until recently, however, I had not had any from the German States, all my German coins were from the unified period. (Or at least Empire or later!) Then, through more luck than anything else, I got my first four German States coinage in a week&#039;s time! I didn&#039;t know what one of them was when I bought it but I figured it out in a short amount of time!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am also partly at least from German descent. (A lot of things make up me). The German side of my family is somewhat rare and obscure...there are only 10 family units in Germany today with the name, and it is guranteed that if you have that last name and live in America, you are related to me! We have been having a hard time finding out exactly where in Germany my family came from, but that will tie in with the last coin I post, also in my opinion the nicest...and certainly the oldest. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These first two are from Prussia. I bought these sight unseen from a BST on a different message board for under $5 each.</p><p>Prussia 1845 A 3 pfennige</p><p><img src="http://images31.fotki.com/v1101/photos/4/348354/8723906/Prussia1845A3pfennigea-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images22.fotki.com/v519/photos/4/348354/8723906/Prussia1845A3pfennigeb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Prussia 1870 A 1 pfennig</p><p><img src="http://images53.fotki.com/v536/photos/4/348354/8723906/Prussia1870A1pfenniga-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images22.fotki.com/v809/photos/4/348354/8723906/Prussia1870A1pfennigb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The next coin I pulled from a local dealer&#039;s assorted world coins bin. I didn&#039;t know what it was when I got it, but I knew I could not pass up a coin from 1820 at this price! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hesse-Cassel 1820 1/24th of a thaler</p><p><img src="http://images54.fotki.com/v1594/photos/4/348354/8723906/HesseCassel1820124thofaThalera-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images56.fotki.com/v1598/photos/4/348354/8723906/HesseCassel1820124thofaThalerb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And now, this last one. I saw it in the same local dealer&#039;s display case, and I knew I would be bringing it home if I could afford it! As it turns out, I could, even though it is now tied for the second most I&#039;ve ever spent on a single coin at $25. I am not 100% sure about it&#039;s details yet...My reference material only goes back to 1850...but I believe it to be a 4 shilling issue from Hamburg. It just looked so good to me I fell in love the instant I saw it! </p><p>I played a joke on my brother, when I got home, and told him I had gotten a Hamburger. (we also stopped to bring home lunch). He knows I have not eaten a real hamburger since 2002, I just don&#039;t like them. But, the joke was on me, because he quickly told me that his latest round of research-done earlier that day, while I was out-is leading him to the strong possibility that my family was in actuality originally from Hamburg! </p><p>It is also the 9th oldest coin in my collection.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Hamburg 1765 4 shilling (?) I don&#039;t know what the O-H-K means at the center bottom of the obverse.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images12.fotki.com/v252/photos/4/348354/8723906/Hamburg17654shillinga-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images17.fotki.com/v297/photos/4/348354/8723906/Hamburg17654shillingb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for reading and hopefully I will be able to add to this collection-and maybe the post-from time to time! I am sorry that all I can provide are scans and that some of them are crooked...I am working on that![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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