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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 829965, member: 39&quot;]Great! Well, in a way the allied &quot;occupation&quot; of Germany in 1944/45 was also a liberation, at least in the Western zones. And in Berlin at that time, the Airlift was well remembered. Now the actual Wall was built later (1961). You may know Billy Wilder&#039;s movie &quot;One, Two, Three&quot; (with James Cagney) which I think is just great ... except back then it was not a commercial success: It was filmed in exactly that year, and when they started making it, you could still get through the checkpoints. While they were making it, the Wall was built, and suddenly the movie was kind of anachronistic. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Errm, back to coins. The 20 pfennig piece from the GDR (East G.) is quite interesting in my opinion as all the denominations from 1 Pf to 2 M were aluminum coins ... except the 20er. Why? Apparently the public payphones were initially unable to handle to handle those light alu coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The GDR also had 5 M coins - one issued <a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img4/25-22_1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img4/25-22_1.jpg" rel="nofollow">in 1969</a> (a commem but the mintage was three times the population) and one made <a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img4/25-29.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/img4/25-29.jpg" rel="nofollow">1971-1990</a>. However, many were melted down later.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coinage from the Federal Republic of Germany, it is interesting that you list all the names of the politicians (Adenauer etc.) depicted on the 2 DM coins. After all, just like US coins the pieces do not actually show the names. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Another oddity is the &quot;year gap&quot;. All pfennig denominations have a frozen date (1950) until 1958 (2 Pf) or even 1966 (1, 5, 10 Pf). That is why &quot;fifty year old coins&quot; were very common until the euro changeover.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, while it is correct to say that the DM/Pf coins were made until 2001, the circulation coins were produced until 1996 only. Anything Mark and Pfennig made between 1997 and 2001 was for sets, and thus collectors, only ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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