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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1151126, member: 39&quot;]Sure, the division of Germany was a result of the &quot;cold&quot; war between the US and the USSR. But that does not really explain why a GDR coin first issued in the mid-1950s (and thus quite a while after the &quot;split&quot;), a coin which did have the country name on the other side, would still resemble the Western DM. Had they done that during the Allied occupation, or with the first pieces (late 1940s/early 1950s) which simply said &quot;Deutschland&quot;, it would have made some sense to me. But in &#039;56?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have quite a few commems from the GDR, partly because they commemorated quite a few occasions that the Federal Republic commemorated too, and I find it interesting to compare the designs. The GDR circulation coins are fairly dull, but many of their commemorative pieces are well designed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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