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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 696660, member: 6370&quot;]I think its just that the Germans didn&#039;t differentiate it that way...but historians do to mark the different periods where the political and government changed. Reich is an interesting word the way it is translated. Its literal translation to English seems to be &#039;Empire&#039; and it was indeed an empire under the Hohenzollern Rulers. Germans seem to translate it as Realm or Domain and the word does not have to denote a government ruled by a monarch or emperor. Thus it remains an appropriate label for all these periods and all coins from this period ID the country as Deutsches Reich. I guess it would be the same with many countries...if American political structure changed, or one party dominated America, it would still probably be called America.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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