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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2721297, member: 39&quot;]The piece from Koblenz, back then &quot;Coblenz&quot;, features Joseph (von) Görres who was born in that city. Don&#039;t know who the man with the hat, on the other side, could be - but &quot;Kastemännche&quot; was a popular term in the Rhineland area for the Prussian 2½ (silver) groschen coins minted roughly between 1840 and 1870. And 25 pfennig would colloquially be two and a half groschen; no silver though. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The text on the Bonn piece basically says who issued the coin: &quot;Unter Gewähr der Kreise Bonn-Stadt, Bonn-Land und des Siegkreises 1917&quot; Means something like &quot;under warranty by the counties of&quot; etc. (The first county is the city of Bonn today; the other two were merged into one county later.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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