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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1168355, member: 39&quot;]The very first commemorative coin issued by Nazi Germany was actually a different one. This piece:</p><p><a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/nmc3/73-80.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/nmc3/73-80.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/nmc3/73-80.jpg</a></p><p>It did not honor anything nazi related though but the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther&#039;s birth.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1 Reichsmark coin I find interesting because of the motto. &quot;Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz&quot; does not sound particularly bad by itself - in fact, it is similar to mottos such as &quot;Public need before private greed&quot;, &quot;Service before self&quot;, or even &quot;Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country&quot;. But used by the nazis it practically had the meaning of &quot;we decide what is good for Germany, and that is what counts&quot; ...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the date on the coins with the Potsdam Garrison Church, that refers to the first Reichstag session under the nazi government. Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg before, on 30 Jan 1933.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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