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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1592467, member: 39&quot;]A similar pose, from a 50 Pfennig coin ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/Bildarchiv_fuer_Bilderstrecken/Muenzen_BRD/muenze_50_pfennig_rs.jpg?__blob=normal&amp;v=3" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Image: Deutsche Bundesbank (<a href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/Bildarchiv_fuer_Bilderstrecken/Muenzen_BRD/muenze_50_pfennig_vs.jpg?__blob=normal&amp;v=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/DE/Bilder/Bildarchiv_fuer_Bilderstrecken/Muenzen_BRD/muenze_50_pfennig_vs.jpg?__blob=normal&amp;v=3" rel="nofollow">this</a> is the other side). The designer of that coin was Richard Werner, and the model was his wife Gerda Jo (who at that time was pregnant). Interestingly, for many years nobody knew who the depicted woman was. The coin was first issued in the late 1940s, the designer died shortly afterwards, and most people thought that was maybe an academy model, maybe &quot;idealized&quot;. In the late 1980s it became known who the model was; the 50 Pf coin was in circulation for more than 50 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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