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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 47926, member: 39"]Poor Luther ;-)  In 1917 he could not be depicted on the Reformation jubilee coin because a portrait of a "non-royal" person would not have been OK at that time. And then the "450th birthday" coin is issued by Nazi Germany ... The 2 RM piece, by the way, is not quite that difficult to get if you don't insist on unc. quality. But the 5 RM coin is a lot more expensive indeed. The 1933 Luther coins are also interesting from a typographic point of view: Between 1933 and 1941 (and for some purposes even after that time) the German government used "Fraktur" types. On these two coins, however, the word Deutsches is not spelled correctly by strict Fraktur standards. Later coins used the "long s" in the middle and the "round s" at the end. Christian[/QUOTE]