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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 827724, member: 39&quot;]Guess those are by far the most popular German coins among American collectors ... One side note: The nazi regime initially used those fraktur characters for many official documents, including coins. According to them, they were &quot;more German&quot; than regular (antiqua) characters. In early 1941 however, that suddenly changed - Fraktur or Gothic was called &quot;Jewish&quot; which had to gradually be replaced again. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua–Fraktur_dispute#The_20th_century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua–Fraktur_dispute#The_20th_century" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua–Fraktur_dispute#The_20th_century</a>&nbsp; However, that did apparently not apply to Nazi Germany&#039;s coins. And the pfennig pieces issued under the allied occupation basically had the same designs, including the fraktur characters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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