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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1084858, member: 39&quot;]Thanks again, Clinker! I suppose it is not easy to always find images of the coins you want to show. The FORVM links do not work for me; guess one has to be a member of that forum in order to view them. One thing about the mints - when the German Empire was founded, there were a few more mints, but some were closed after just a few years. Here is a complete list, primarily to show that the &quot;list of mintmarks&quot; initially had no gaps in the alphabet. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A - Berlin</p><p>B - Hannover (until 1878) <i>(during the occupation of Austria 1938-45, Vienna used the B)</i></p><p>C - Frankfurt (until 1879)</p><p>D - München/Munich</p><p>E - Dresden (until 1887), then Muldenhütten (later made GDR coins until 1953)</p><p>F - Stuttgart</p><p>G - Karlsruhe</p><p>H - Darmstadt (until 1882)</p><p>J - Hamburg</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there is one more coin from Saxony that I would like to add. It was issued in 1917 and commemorates 400 years of the Lutheran Reformation. The piece shows <u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_III,_Elector_of_Saxony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_III,_Elector_of_Saxony" rel="nofollow">Frederick III</a></u> who helped and protected Luther. As this coin came out during WW1, only 100 pieces (of 330,000 planned) were made; the rest was to be issued after the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later about half of that low mintage was melted down. Here you can buy one, provided you pay 85,000 euro ...</p><p><a href="http://www.beutler-muenzen.de/artikel502_258.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beutler-muenzen.de/artikel502_258.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.beutler-muenzen.de/artikel502_258.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(A modern copy is much less expensive. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><a href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/zilvar/item.php5?id=1476&amp;lang=en&amp;curr=USDEUR" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/zilvar/item.php5?id=1476&amp;lang=en&amp;curr=USDEUR" rel="nofollow">http://www.muenzauktion.com/zilvar/item.php5?id=1476&amp;lang=en&amp;curr=USDEUR</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This page shows the original, and its original, so to say:</p><p><a href="http://www.coingallery.de/KarlV/FriedIII_D.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingallery.de/KarlV/FriedIII_D.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coingallery.de/KarlV/FriedIII_D.htm</a></p><p>The coin at the bottom is the 1917 piece, designed by Friedrich W. Hörnlein and inspired by the piece above it, a Saxonian 16c taler.</p><p><br /></p><p>And now back to affordable pieces, hehe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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