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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 884683, member: 39&quot;]Back then Germany was an empire, and that eagle is not the Bundesadler (Federal Eagle) but the Reichsadler (Imperial Eagle), or rather a variety of that eagle. Ah well, it&#039;s not a coin anyway but a pattern that Goetz made and that was never issued as a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not quite sure what Hitler has to do with this piece, but as you may know, Bavaria even attempted to extradite him, and later refused to give him Bavarian citizenship. He was Austrian until the mid-1920s, then stateless until 1932.</p><p><br /></p><p>That design is better than most of those propaganda medals which Goetz designed and had made. As for what is depicted below the eagle&#039;s wings, have a look at the &quot;actual&quot; eagle of those days: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wappen_Deutsches_Reich_-_Reichsadler_1889.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wappen_Deutsches_Reich_-_Reichsadler_1889.png" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wappen_Deutsches_Reich_-_Reichsadler_1889.png</a>&nbsp; No last supper, no church in Jerusalem, I am afraid ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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