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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1056223, member: 39&quot;]Hmm, was that Part 1 of a German States series? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Alphabetically Anhalt was the first state. By the way, the official name of the duchy was simply <i>Anhalt</i>, as in 1860 or so Anhalt-Dessau took the other Anhalts (which had no throne heirs) over, so to say. Today the area is part of the Federal Republic&#039;s state of Saxony-Anhalt.</p><p><br /></p><p>The German Empire&#039;s states issued silver (2M and 5M) and gold (5M, 10M, 20M) coins. As you wrote, Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace Lorraine) had a different status, and thus did not issue any. The two portraits of Friedrich II are interesting; the earlier one (on the 2M 1904 coin) is a classical profile. The later one (3M 1909) is different - the duke turns his head a little, and the result is a better portrait, I think ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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