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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 47517, member: 39"]Well, those world wars were sixty to ninety years ago, and I find it somewhat strange when they are misused for political purposes in later years. Be it by those who try and use them to justify more recent wars ("we did the right thing in the early 1940s, so you have no right to doubt about our war in XY now"), be it by those who try and put anything in some crude perspective ("yeah, Germany did bad things but others do too"). But yes, of course the swastika on a German coin represents a deadly terror regime no matter how "innocent" the symbol originally was. If such a coin is kept for the atrocities it memorizes, we should also keep in mind that the year when it was minted, 1939, was also the year when Germany started WW2 by attacking Poland.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I for one collect those pieces simply because they are part of the history of my country - I also have pieces from the 1871-1918 Empire, from the "Weimar Republic", the communist German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic. But I understand many people deliberately collect - or, on the contrary, detest and avoid - the coins from Nazi Germany because of their historic significance.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the composition, these 2 Reichsmark coins are Ag625 Cu375. (The 5 RM coins had a higher silver content.) Also, 1939 was the very last year when they were made. In 1951 the Federal Republic started issuing 2 mark (then Deutsche Mark) coins, but those were CuNi pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 47517, member: 39"]Well, those world wars were sixty to ninety years ago, and I find it somewhat strange when they are misused for political purposes in later years. Be it by those who try and use them to justify more recent wars ("we did the right thing in the early 1940s, so you have no right to doubt about our war in XY now"), be it by those who try and put anything in some crude perspective ("yeah, Germany did bad things but others do too"). But yes, of course the swastika on a German coin represents a deadly terror regime no matter how "innocent" the symbol originally was. If such a coin is kept for the atrocities it memorizes, we should also keep in mind that the year when it was minted, 1939, was also the year when Germany started WW2 by attacking Poland. Well, I for one collect those pieces simply because they are part of the history of my country - I also have pieces from the 1871-1918 Empire, from the "Weimar Republic", the communist German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic. But I understand many people deliberately collect - or, on the contrary, detest and avoid - the coins from Nazi Germany because of their historic significance. As for the composition, these 2 Reichsmark coins are Ag625 Cu375. (The 5 RM coins had a higher silver content.) Also, 1939 was the very last year when they were made. In 1951 the Federal Republic started issuing 2 mark (then Deutsche Mark) coins, but those were CuNi pieces. Christian[/QUOTE]
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