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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 885711, member: 39&quot;]OK, here is Goetz&#039;s piece (left - hope Matt won&#039;t mind my drawing on it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ). On the right, the imperial eagle from those days - that eagle also appeared on most coins from the Wilhelm II years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The big bird is the eagle representing Germany. Has been that way since the Middle Ages; usually the one-headed eagle referred to the German king while the two-headed version referred to the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Today&#039;s Germany (the Federal Republic) uses the eagle too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The crown (blue circles) is the symbolic crown of the German Empire. The small bird (red circles) is the Prussian eagle, with the Hohenzollern CoA (four fields, black and white) in the center. The yellow parts, a sort of chain, is the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle. Click on Matt&#039;s photo, and the Wikipedia link in my previous post, to see the details ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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