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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 824110, member: 39&quot;]Who knows, but I doubt it. First, no silver coins were made by Nazi Germany in WW2. The last 2 and 5 RM coins with silver in them are dated 1939, and the war (attack on Poland) did not begin until Sep-1939.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, before the war quite a few Jewish people who were able to get out of Germany had to leave valuables behind. Also, during and after the Pogrom Night (Nov-1938) many Jews in Germany lost their valuable items including gold and silver. But those were mostly hoarded or sold then, not melted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later, during the war, golden rings and dental fillings of people who were killed in &quot;camps&quot; like Auschwitz were indeed taken out, and the nazis made, in one way or another, money with them. But none of that material is in the coins you have.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you really badly want a coin that might contain gold from people killed at a concentration camp, buy a Swiss 1935 &quot;Vreneli&quot; gold coin with an added &quot;L&quot;. Those were made (shortly after the war AFAIK) with gold from bars that include some of the Melmer gold (&quot;named&quot; after Bruno Melmer, an SS storm leader) which Nazi Germany sold to Switzerland. Much of that gold and other valuables, however, never left Germany but was stored in a mine in Merkers, Thuringia until the American forces opened that in 1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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