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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4409672, member: 111237&quot;]Someone pointed out once that the fellows in the mint are dressed quite a bit nicer than the others, quite fashionable which made me think they may have been well paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the top left of the large center panel (this painting is by the artist Hans Hesse btw) is&nbsp; Daniel Knappe and the Angel (Knappe being another word for a miner in at least some parts of Germany) the story goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>The miner Daniel Knappe was a hard-working and honest man who had got into fi-</p><p>nancial difficulties through no fault of his own and hardly knew how to feed his sick </p><p>wife and their seven children. One night an angel appeared to him in a dream and </p><p>said, &quot;Go tomorrow into the dense forest at the foot of the Schreckenberg. There, in </p><p>the branches of the tallest fir tree, you will find a nest with golden eggs.” First thing </p><p>the next morning the miner set out and soon found the tallest fir tree. He climbed to </p><p>the top of the tree and searched all around – but in vain – a nest with golden eggs </p><p>was nowhere to be found. Deeply disappointed, he descended again then suddenly,</p><p>it occurred to him that he had perhaps misinterpreted the dream, and that in reality </p><p>the roots of the tree could be the place to search. He got his tools, started digging, </p><p>and soon came upon a rich silver vein. </p><p>This story are said to have taken place in 1491. The rich finds prompted </p><p>Duke Georg the Bearded to have a new mountain town built at the site. The “new </p><p>town at Schreckenberg&quot; received its town charter already in October 1497 and was </p><p>renamed Annaberg in 1501.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Lucas_Cranach_d.%C3%84._-_Bildnis_des_Herzogs_Georg_von_Sachsen_%28Gem%C3%A4ldegalerie%2C_Berlin%29.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Herzog (Duke) Georg Von Sachsen (the Bearded) by Lucas Cranach the Elder[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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