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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1151742, member: 39&quot;]The GDR had two types of commemorative coins by the way: Pieces that would (at least to some extent) circulate, and those that were primarily made for collectors in other countries. The &quot;circulating&quot; ones were not all that difficult to get for people in the GDR, but in order to get others - especially the 10M and 20M silver coins - you had to be &quot;organized&quot; in some collectors club from what I have read.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 5M coin with the Brandenburg Gate is interesting for at least two reasons: First, while they used the gate as a symbol of Berlin, the area was &quot;off limits&quot; between June 1961 and December 1989. Also, the GDR coins show it with the &quot;empty&quot; wreath and a flag at the top (as it had appeared since the mid-1950s), while the current German coins <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8597.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8597.gif" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8597.gif</a> show the gate as it is now, with the Prussian eagle and cross again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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