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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 658443, member: 39"]The Weimar Republic has often been called a democracy without democrats - and that also applies to Hindenburg. Ultimately he was the man who appointed Hitler chancellor, thus head of government. So the nazis sure had reasons for being thankful to him, but they also wanted to insinuate a certain continuity in the initial phase of their regime. As in, look, the "dreaded Weimar" (their view) is over, but "good" old Hindenburg is on our side ... Don't think you can learn much about the nazi years merely by collecting nazi coins. And I think that if American or British collectors are fascinated by them, that has different reasons. But the coins are not "evil" by themselves. Even here in Germany, where using nazi symbols is by and large illegal, you can of course collect coins from those times. Interesting that you mention the silver "quality" - the nazi regime actually increased the silver content of the 2 and 5 RM coin. They were somewhat smaller than the Weimar pieces, but were Ag625 (2 RM) and even Ag900 (5 RM) instead of the earlier Ag500. Of course those were not made any more once Nazi Germany started the war ... Christian[/QUOTE]