Yeah. Hitler died in 1945. But to answer what you wondered, about how many survived alot. In fact there are alot of Nazi era coins with Swastikas on them. I see them in lots of foreign coins alot. I have about 3 of them.
yeah i know hitler already died before that date. so i wonder how I found it amongst my penny boxes from 3 or 4 years ago? :whistle:
people use euros now, not an uncommon surprize to see a pfenning passed off amongst similar size coins in another nations' currency. could be that someone wanted to get rid of it, didn't look when rolling coins/cashing them in and so on. these are not uncommon coins, nor is finding coppery coins from canada, cayman islands, bahamas, DR and such in US coins with some degree of frequency.
Coin roll guy, yours looks like it spent more than its fair share of time on the pavement! ...maybe someone used it to scratch graffiti into the Berlin Wall...
Most of these are from the Federal Republic of Germany indeed. The aluminum 1 Pfennig piece, roughly in the middle, is from the GDR (East G.) which did not join the Federal Republic until 1990. Not quite sure what Hitler might have to do with those coins though. The 1950 coins like the one shown in the initial post were very common in the pre-euro years. Mostly because they were produced, with that date, between 1950 and 1965 ... Christian
