Today is German Unity Day, post a German coin

My Dinkelsbühl & Dürer commemorative

 

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@Al Kowsky In Robert Levinson's book "The Early Dated Coins of Europe
1234-1500" 2nd ed. it is listed as a goldgulden. It is very similar in weight.

 

Some of my favorite German coins would also be notgeld and Duren stands out as issuing outstanding examples...iron coins.

 

Some of my coins

 

Back when Germany was still selling silver 10 Euro coins at face value I got this one from Chrisild.

 

Technically, at that time, Danzig was a free state under the control of the league of nations and is now a part of Poland but certainly at the time it was mostly German and went with Germany during WWII.

Love their coins as well.

 

This is one of my favorite coins. My grandfather was in royal bodyguard regiment called the Black Hussain in 1913. The coin commemorates the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 and I found a well worn, pocket piece version of this coin in a pawn shop silver junk box in 2013. On the 100 year anniversary. I had no idea of it's existence before then.

I like to imagine that my grandfather had it as his pocket piece when it was new. He died before I was born, so I'll never know.

 

That's a nice Reichsthaler from Hamburg.

 

I travelled to Berlin in 1982 by rail. The difference between East and West was stark, kind of like going from black and white to color as in the Wizard of Oz. I didn't collect any coins, but East German citizens would give several times the "official" exchange rate for US dollars.

 

The great Enlightenment figure Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was celebrated by the Weimar Republic on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

 

Here are my contributions.
Sorry about the picture quality, these were taken for another reason than clarity!!

 

Sweet! I too have an emotional attachment to this type, and the specific coin seen below. My mother gave it to me in about 1978; she got it from my great grandfather - her father's father. All of them were born and lived (or live, as in the case of my mum) in Germany, in the Mannheim and Zweibrucken areas. My Ur-opa (great-grandfather) got it mounted for a necklace. Despite that, I have immense attachment to the coin.

Have a terrific day!
David

 

Sorry that was from Austria

 

Germany Empire 1887-A MS-65 20 Pfennig

 

Prussia 1876 5 Marks.

 

Frederick III, also called (until 1888) Crown Prince Frederick William, born October 18, 1831, Potsdam, Prussia—died June 15, 1888, Potsdam, king of Prussia and German emperor, known as the 99-days emperor, because he was emperor for 99 days in 1888. During this time, he was a voiceless invalid, dying of throat cancer. Although influenced by liberal, constitutional, and middle-class ideas, he retained a strong sense of the Hohenzollern royal and imperial dignity.

Friedrich III, AU 10 Mark
19 mm, 3.980 g
Berlin, 1888
Ref.: KM 514, J 247; A. J. 247; Schl. 314; D.S. 336; Friedberg 3829

Ob: Bust facing right FRIEDRICH DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG V. PREUSSEN, mint mark A
Rev.: Crown over imperial eagle DEUTSCHES REICH 1888 10 MARK

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Love collecting these. My birth year, probably have about a dozen or so, I also collect the 5mark silver koins for the diff type bird on the Rev.

 

I really like the art deco look of this coin!