Germany coin thread (only the best)

I need to find the coin to take better pictures of that area...its around here somewhere..

 

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@DEA here is rhe same coin using axial lighting to mute the luster but bring out the details.

Seems like a lot going on around the rim as well from 630 to 830

 

Oh, yeah, @Razz. I did not notice before. I think we need an error expert here. If memory serves, and it usually doesn't, that probable blank or planchet error at two o'clock had some sort of detrimental effect on the force of the strike at that third quadrant (six to nine o'clock). Maybe? Am I just making things up as my brain contemplates this coin?

And now I think I'm seeing a die crack on the obverse at about 2 o'clock - past the e in Reich meandering down to the 0 in 50.

Nevertheless, very nice photo, Razz. Please explain "axial lighting to mute the luster." I am assuming that means light from an angle but, as you can read above, my ignorance or imagination can be limitless.

Thanks, Razz!
David

 

Its is a type if indirect lighting by blocking direct light onto the coin and using a plane if glass to bounce the light into the coin and shooting through the glass. In this way the light from the lamps does not bounce off the coin and into the lens of the camera as much. This technique I learned from reading on Coin Talk!

Especially effective on highly reflecrive coins such as proofs.

 

Awesome! That picture was taken through a clear sheet of glass? Wow! What a set up you must have. Thank you, Razz! I've learned today thanks to you!

 

This is the last one. Still axial lighting but a little more light on the coin.

 

Very nice, the legend "Sich regen bringt Segen" it means "Hard work pays off".

The engravers were Louis Oppenheim and Reinhard Kullrich;

Louis Oppenheim (1879–1936) was a German graphic artist, painter and type designer. Born in Coburg, Oppenheim studied in London from 1899 to 1906. He moved to Berlin and started his work as a graphic artist in 1910, signing his work with his initials, "LO" and working for clients such as AES, the Reichsbahn, Persil and Adrema. His posters are considered a significant product of the 'Berlin poster style'. Oppenheim worked for the type foundry Berthold and created a handful of significant and widespread typefaces, all of which share modernist characteristics, such as Lo-Type and Fanfare which are still in wide use today. Also, he designed the first coin of the Weimar Republic in 1919.

Reinhard Kullrich (born February 23, 1869 in Berlin; died in 1947) was a German medalist at the Berlin mint. Reinhard Kullrich was the son of the medalist and coin die cutter Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich (1821–1887). Among other things, Reinhard Kullrich created this 50 Pfennig piece together with Louis Oppenheim from 1919 to 1922, together with Professor Josef Wackerle from Munich the 3 Mark piece in 1922, the 1 and 2 Rentenpfennig in 1923, the Danziger 2 Gulden piece in 1923 together with Professor Dr. Fisherman. The 1 Mark piece followed in 1924 again together with Professor Josef Wackerle, the 1 Reichspfennig coin (1924–1936) and in 1932 the 4 Pfennig coin (“Brüning Taler”).

 

Got this in the Mail today.
It‘ s a challenge to find a better one of this Type. A assume MS66.

 

I am small fry (but I guess there is a place for such collectors as well here ) so no Thalers or gold coins.
Still, here goes, some (probably the best) of my German coins:

Coins from the Empire:







Prussia


Kleve


Bremen


Saxony

 

1865 A 2 pfennig. I like all the coins, especially those with some honest wear

 

I got one too, almost!


(Not something I'm proud of)

 

This one is nice, as well.


The edge is inscribed.

 

A Quarter Dukat from Waldeck / from Kunker Auction
Karl I Furst zu Waldeck 1761