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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 42511, member: 39&quot;]Sure. Didn&#039;t pretty much every European country &quot;invite the Germans&quot; back then?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins used in Germany between 1945 and 1949, yes, the first post-WW2 pieces were 1 pfennig coins, &quot;nazi style&quot; but with the swastika removed. Those were dated 1944 for some odd reason. Shortly afterwards the design was modified a little, and the eagle got tail feathers where the swastika used to be. (1, 5 and 10 pf coins dated 1945-48.)</p><p><br /></p><p>After the currency reform in the three Western occupation zones in June 1948, new coins (1, 5, 10, 50 Pf) were issued, with a different design. And since at that time the Federal Republic did not exist yet (it was founded in May &#039;49), the name of the central bank was used indeed. The six states that joined the Fed. Rep. later - Saarland in 1958, five more in 1990 - had of course different coins until then ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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