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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2278269, member: 39&quot;]There was no design change; the &quot;newer&quot; one is simply a commemorative coin. With a fairly high issue volume though - because the reason to issue it was a political one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both the &quot;newer&quot; 3 RM and 5 RM coins (identical designs) say <i>Jahrtausendfeier der Rheinlande.</i> This millennium of the Rhinelands was a somewhat arbitrarily picked anniversary: In 925, Lotharingia became part of East Francia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_(duchy)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_(duchy)" rel="nofollow">see here</a>). Not that this would be relevant for Rhineland, except that 1,000 years later much of the area was still occupied by the winners of the 1918 armistice ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The design was based on a suggestion by Konrad Adenauer, then mayor of Cologne. He was also the first chancellor (head of government) of today&#039;s Germany (Federal Republic of G., 1949-) by the way. Another side note: In 1930, when the occupation actually came to an end, another &quot;Rhine&quot; issue (3 and 5 RM) commemorated that. Again with a mintage volume that was considerably higher than what was common in those years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edge inscriptions are pretty common, on both Deutsches Reich coin and issues of the Federal Republic of Germany.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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