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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 47693, member: 1101&quot;]I know that some people like that Potsdam coin, but to me there IS way too much empty space.&nbsp; Looks too much like a medal to me.&nbsp; I still own a couple though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do like the Hindenburg silver, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>I assumed that silver was hoarded, but there always seem to be people with piles of them for sale.&nbsp; I assume that they came from somewhere fairly recently. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do know that right after the Berlin wall fell, allsorts of collector firearms started coming out of Eastern Germany, such as WWII Lugers, etc., that the government had just been warehousing,.&nbsp; I suspect that the same might have happened with silver coins (although I can not explain why they would have saved copper or zinc ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>We did have a collection at work to get all old national coins right before the euro came in, and we cashed them in and donated the money to charity.&nbsp; An old Nazi 1 pfennig found its way into the collection box (I liberated it, though).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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