If you like Led Zeppelin, try a Silver Zeppelin

1930 A Germany Weimar Republic 5 Mark (Berlin Mint) NGC AU 58
Graf Zeppelin
Mintage: 217,000

 

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Wow ! Cool Coin !

 

Nice coin. I may have to pick one up sometime.
I had a Graf Zeppelin stamp when I was a kid, simply because I liked Zeppelin.

 

beautiful! I had a good stash of those (not that good) when I was stationed in Germany. I went to the local type antique stores they had there and bought as many as I could find over 7 years total. Unfortune timing left the coins at my home in the states. Stolen and sold by nephews. I miss those coins.

 

Love it and have to get one,to bad what happened to it on that day.

 

The Graf Zeppelin was retired and stored in a hanger until 1940 when it was dismantled because the aluminium was needed for the war effort. You're thinking of the Hindenburg.

Curiously enough the Germans built the LZ-126 in 1924 as reparations to the United States and it was flown across the Atlantic later that year and was accepted into the US Navy as the USS Los Angeles. When it was built it was designed for hydrogen, but in the US Navy it was converted to helium for lift. It was used for fleet operations and also as a basis for building aircraft carrying airships the USS Macon and the USS Akron and USS Shenandoah. The USS Los Angeles was flown until 1932 and had a good safety record. The same cannot be said for the other three US built airships, all of which met tragic ends.


The above medal was struck in Germany to commemorate Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer of the LZ-126 and the Europe to America flight on 12 October - 15 October 1924.

 

A great part of good history, before the bad. Very nice coin, thanks for sharing it.