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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1150686, member: 39&quot;]Well, sometimes it can be difficult to have good relations to Russia and, for example, Poland or Estonia at the same time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Within the European Union such cooperation works pretty well (leaving Italian and Hungarian issues aside for a moment ...), but that should not prevent us from being on good terms with Russia. Errm, back to nazi coinage; here is a piece from their first year, 1933. It commemorates the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther&#039;s birth.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/nmc3/73-80.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(Image: worldcoingallery.com)</p><p><br /></p><p>No nazi symbols on these pieces (a 2 RM and a 5 RM with the same design) yet, but you will notice the use of &quot;Fraktur&quot; blackletter type. Now this is not the first coin with Fraktur script, but the nazis made its use mandatory. Except the artist was criticized because of his &quot;round S&quot;. Huh?</p><p><br /></p><p>On all other coins issued in the &quot;Third Reich&quot; and the Allied Occupation years, there are two different S types in the word &quot;Deutsches&quot;: the &quot;long S&quot; (which looks similar to a lowercase F) and the &quot;round S&quot;. But the designer of the Luther coin, Hans Wissel, thought that the round S would be better. Well, this was the first and last one with the two &quot;round S&quot; characters ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically, the nazis later changed their views regarding Fraktur: In 1941 they decided that this type was based on &quot;Jewish&quot; characters <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />rolleyes<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and that the use of Fraktur should be phased out. The reason was basically a &quot;pragmatic&quot; one - Fraktur was hard to read for people in the occupied territories. As the transition took quite a while, and as the coins with Fraktur were primarily used in Germany, modifying the pfennigs did not have a high priority.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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