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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1073744, member: 39&quot;]Ah, let me add a few more &quot;trivia&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Have you noticed that there are three eagles on the Lübeck coins? First there is the eagle of the German Empire, with a small Prussian eagle in the middle. On the other side you see the double eagle from the city&#039;s CoA. Many cities in the Holy Roman (and then Roman-German) Empire that were not part of any kingdom, duchy, etc. but had only the emperor &quot;above them&quot; used the eagle, either with one head or two, to indicate that special status.</p><p><br /></p><p>A little politics - at the end of the monarchy in 1918, Lübeck was pretty much the only state that did not have a revolution. (The old senate made a new constitution but basically stayed in office.) Now calling the Third Reich socialistic is quite misleading. Of course there are people who want to politically equate Nazi Germany with the Soviet Union, and sure, both had totalitarian regimes. But a differentiation would historically be more accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, Lübeck became part of the Schleswig-Holstein province which was part of the state of Prussia. Today SH is a state by itself, and Lübeck is a city in that state. The very first coin in the modern &quot;German States&quot; €2 series was dedicated to Schleswig-Holstein and shows the Holstentor (an old city gate) in Lübeck. <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8515.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8515.gif" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/images/image8515.gif</a> That was in 2006 - and one year later Lübeck&#039;s old town was featured on a €100 gold coin <a href="http://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/bmf/art/informationen/muenzgalerie/100_200EurGold/cb_news_luebeck.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/bmf/art/informationen/muenzgalerie/100_200EurGold/cb_news_luebeck.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/bmf/art/informationen/muenzgalerie/100_200EurGold/cb_news_luebeck.jpg</a> from the Unesco Cultural Heritage series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly Lübeck was the first place in the (pre-1806) Empire that, as from 1502, had a coin called &quot;Mark&quot; (named after the mark as a unit of weight). Later, however, the Taler became more influential ... until the (post-1871) German Empire brought the Mark back to Lübeck so to say. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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