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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1317842, member: 39&quot;]The Prussian piece was issued to commemorate the anniversary of the &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mein_Volk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Mein_Volk" rel="nofollow">An mein Volk</a>&quot; appeal from 1813 when Prussia started fighting against Napoleonic France. The words &quot;Der König rief und alle, alle kamen&quot; (roughly &quot;The king called, and they all, all came&quot;) are from a song written, also in 1813, by Heinrich Clauren, a writer in the Prussian military. Well, the king did not actually call but rather reacted, but coins show a ruler&#039;s or government&#039;s view of the world and of history anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the bottom, &quot;Mit Gott für König und Vaterland&quot;, ie. &quot;With God for king and fatherland&quot;. Hard to tell whether these coins were issued to get people prepared for the next war which started one year after those pieces had come out ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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