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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1331330, member: 39"]Well, I sure don't sing about Edelweiß flowers, and do not yodel either. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I just find it strange if anybody says that this flower "belongs" to that country only, or when people say (these days) that it is odd for Germany to honor the "Austrians" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Bertha von Suttner on coins. Huh? But sure, saying that half of what could be called European culture is German, and usurping all this - or rather the bits that fit into some ideological concept - , is something that Nazi Germany did quite excessively.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that the answer to the initial question is still a plain No. The German Empire (Deutsches Reich) issued its last gold coins in 1915; they continued to be legal tender, at least in theory, until 1938 though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1331330, member: 39"]Well, I sure don't sing about Edelweiß flowers, and do not yodel either. :) I just find it strange if anybody says that this flower "belongs" to that country only, or when people say (these days) that it is odd for Germany to honor the "Austrians" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Bertha von Suttner on coins. Huh? But sure, saying that half of what could be called European culture is German, and usurping all this - or rather the bits that fit into some ideological concept - , is something that Nazi Germany did quite excessively. I think that the answer to the initial question is still a plain No. The German Empire (Deutsches Reich) issued its last gold coins in 1915; they continued to be legal tender, at least in theory, until 1938 though. Christian[/QUOTE]
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