Always have been interested in French, Italian, and German coins, from the Imperial periods. I never bothered collecting them, as I really don't know much about them. This will be a learning process. I saw this 1 Mark coin, common date, and jumped on it, as the coin looked beautiful to me. Here is the true view, and the coin looks exactly like the picture--brilliant, with a bit of rim toning. MS 67
Very nice and a good choice. How many 100+ year old silver coins can you really get in MS67 without ripping a hole in your wallet now-a-days?
Indeed that WWI era coinage is so beautiful, I have wanted to do a type set of all the great powers in Europe of that time, but also the Latin Monetary Union coinages which would include Romania, Italy etc. That piece is just about as fresh as the day it was minted, no doubt hoarded quickly when the war began. I do have several Romanian and Russian coins from that era that similarly seemed to have found their way into hoards instead of circulation because of the war.
That was the first foreign coin that I purchased for my collection after years of only dealing with US coinage. I haven't bought a single US coin since.
