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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4309072, member: 57463&quot;]Well, thanks to all and a nice find! Who does not love old tickets? They truly speak to the historicity of the particular coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Allow me to chime in on the German. I had a lot of it from before the 7th grade through my junior year in college. I am now working for my third German company here in the USA where even the German is &quot;Denglisch&quot; (Deutsch Englisch). But I do not use it every day and these assignments have been years apart.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway...&nbsp; The script is not Sütterlin script. It is Kurrent. Wikipedia has examples of both. For one thing Sütterlin script was commissioned by the Prussian government in 1915. So, this collector was unlikely to have learned it. If you look at the word &quot;zeichen&quot; the h looks exactly like the Kurrent and not at all like the Sütterlin. </p><p><br /></p><p>(2) If you look at the coin you see that it has an AR after the ROMA. That&#039;s why &quot;zeichen AR&quot; for sign, symbol, mark,..., AR silver, of course. Unless some other meaning can be assigned to AR.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a personal bonus, reading Wikipedia on Kurrent handwriting,&nbsp; I never knew before that the umlaut came from putting a little e over the vowel. But I did know that you could get around the lack of an umlaut on your American keyboard by putting an e after the vowel&nbsp; as in &quot;Suetterlin&quot; for &quot;Sütterlin&quot; or for &quot;Schrödinger&quot; writing &quot;Schroedinger&quot; which allows even Sheldon Cooper to mispronounce the name with a long o. </p><p><br /></p><p>Be all that as it may, it&#039;s a cool coin, for sure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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