Germany coin thread (only the best) If you have a german coin (if you dont, get out your useless to this thread) post it below, lets see some nice german coins! I recentley (80 years ago) recieved a swastika german coin! Here it is! I love the coin quite alot, (im not german, infact im polish so in WW2 if you know your facts we hated germans) and its quite the conversation piece!Post yours! I have never seen a toned german coin!:smile
Here is my 1939-A Berlin Silver 2 Mark Piece. Here is a rather minty 1938-D Munich Silver 2 Mark Piece.
I collect German Empire and Federal Republic coins. The Empire 1 mark and the Federal 5 mark are my favorite of all the designs.
Denominated 20 Pfenning... lets see what else I can dig up Probably made of Iron (I see Iron, Zinc and Board as possibilities) Made in 1920.
I have many more that I still need to have photographed. Just takes a lot of time. - None of them are toned as beautifully as Gbroke's though...
3 Kopecks Commander-in-Chief of the East 1916 8.6 g Fe, 28 mm, military coinage for occupied territories in Eastern Europe
2/3 Thaler I like to collect odd denominations, and I think 2/3 of a Thaler qualifies, though it is not quite as arbitrary as it sounds, being equal to 1 Gulden at the time.
Victory over France! I often wondered why the French were so uncompromising in their demands for reparations in the Versailles Treaty. Now I think I know why: because Bismarck demanded heavy reparations from France after the Franco-Prussian war. The French wanted tit-for-tat. Here is one of several "Victory Thalers" issued to celebrate the successful end of the war.
Where do you think did Prussia get all that gold from that was stored at the Julius-Turm in Spandau? France had to pay five billion francs to the newly founded German Empire, and part of that - gold in coins worth about 120 million marks - was stored in that fortress tower until WW1 ... As for this topic, well, I collect coins from my country (Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1949). Have a few from the Deutsches Reich (1871-1949), the GDR (East G., 1949-1990) too, but I focus on modern pieces from Western/Central Europe and North America. Christian