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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1153595, member: 39&quot;]There will always be coins that some of us find great primarily because of the designs while others may dislike them primarily because of the political message or background. And I agree, it is hard if not impossible to keep these two aspects apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of my coin collection is, surprise, pieces from &quot;my&quot; country, the Federal Republic of Germany. But (apart from the problem that I collect too many coins from all kinds of places <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) I find &quot;theme sets&quot; - such as the Dresden one that I mentioned - very interesting. Similarly, I have Goethe and Luther coins from the Federal Republic, so I also wanted to get the issues from the German Empire and the GDR. I have an Einstein coin from here, and I also got one from Switzerland. And so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are GDR coins that I want or wanted to get because they show a place that I have been to (Dresden, Weimar, Meißen, etc.) or maybe great writers or composers that for some reason have been honored on GDR coins but not Federal Republic coins. Does not have anything to do with the question of whether I support or love the countries/regimes that issued them ...</p><p><br /></p><p>One more piece (Image: Mikeska) from the GDR - it honors <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Guericke" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Guericke" rel="nofollow">Otto von Guericke</a> who not only was the mayor of Magdeburg for many years but also a scientist who developed the vacuum pump for example. Here is ... nah, not Guericke but the pump.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.muenzauktion.com/mikeska/pic/artid18_combined.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And when six years ago the Federal Republic (now including the former GDR states) issued a &quot;<a href="http://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/bmf/art/shop/gedenkmuenzen/910018sa_gr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/bmf/art/shop/gedenkmuenzen/910018sa_gr.jpg" rel="nofollow">1200 Years Magdeburg</a>&quot; coin, that pump showed up again ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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