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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Euro, post: 1124516, member: 28879&quot;]Here&#039;s another one with a story to it:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>picture on: <a href="http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/munten/landen/nederland/485135-10-cent-1941-zink-driekruinenboom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/munten/landen/nederland/485135-10-cent-1941-zink-driekruinenboom" rel="nofollow">http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/munten/landen/nederland/485135-10-cent-1941-zink-driekruinenboom</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The link has pictures of the extreeeeeemely rare Dutch 10 cents &quot;driekruinenboom&quot; 1941. A Nazi occupation coin. This coin depicts a tree (the &quot;driekruinenboom&quot;), probably the Germanic tree of life. After a lot of the coins had been minted, it was ruled to be too &quot;kitsch&quot; by the highest Nazi authorities in Holland. They had them melted down and replaced by another piece that bears a picture of .......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>yep, three tulips.................</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>picture on: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_cent_WWII_(Dutch_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_cent_WWII_(Dutch_coin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_cent_WWII_(Dutch_coin</a>)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another strange coin is the German 1 trillion Marks coin (it&#039;s an emergency coin (Notgeld) of the German region Westfalen/Westphalia; the horse on it is the symbol of Westphalia). The coin was already discussed here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t25945/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t25945/">http://www.cointalk.com/t25945/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To my knowledge 1 trillion is the biggest denomination ever put on a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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