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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 827688, member: 39&quot;]Aah, familiar pieces, Clinker - coins that I used or use pretty much every day. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> So this time I did not really learn anything new, but for others that will be different.</p><p><br /></p><p>While I primarily collect the coins from my country (Federal Republic of Germany, founded in 1949), I do have quite a few from other/older German countries. That includes German states (got very few only), the German Empire, the German Democratic Republic, and &quot;peripheral&quot; issues like Danzig or Saarland.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a side note: The GDR Mark coins lost their legal tender status in July 1990, when the country adopted the (West) German Mark. The pfennig denominations continued to circulate until the end of June 1991.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and the Federal Republic of Germany did not exactly &quot;become&quot; a member of the European Union but was one of the six founding members (1957, &quot;EEC&quot; back then). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Shortly before the introduction of the euro (Jan-1999) the mints stopped making DM and Pf coins, except for collector sets, and started making euro and cent pieces ... which, as you mentioned, did not circulate until Jan-2002.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, all coins that have ever been issued by the Federal Republic can still be redeemed at the original DM/€ conversion rate. (The only exception is the 2 DM coin dated 1951; that was taken out of circulation after a few years only as people mixed it up with the 1 DM coins.) So you could bring a 5 DM coin to a branch office of the central bank and get €2.56 for it. Or take a 1 pfennig coin and get ... nah, not worth the effort. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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