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Mintage was 60,674,000. Second highest mintage of the series. Not Rare! Pics are too small to grade, but I wouldn't consider it "high" Uncirculated value is about $5

 

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Got the half crown for my set, only need the 6p now. Was bidding on a 6p this morning and forgot and lost it for a reasonable price. Was a decent ms63 also. The half crown pictured is a pcgs ms64.

 

Russian ruble for my turtles collection and a Cook Islands 10 dollars for my elephant collection.

 

Perfectly OK to not like that symbol, especially in that context. But "most"?? Contrary to what some in the US seem to believe, German history did not begin in 1933 and did not end in 1945.

Christian

 

I was thinking the exact same thing.
Probably not even 1%

 

The eagle, either with one head or two, has been used as a symbol of the Holy Roman Empire (later: H.R.E. of German Nation), for centuries. Later by the Deutsches Reich (1871-1949), then - and today - by the Federal Republic of Germany.

Friedrich/Frederick "Barbarossa" used an eagle in the late 12th century, as a reference to ancient Rome. (As in, my empire is a continuation of the Imperium Romanum. ) Initially that eagle was a symbol of the king, later it became a symbol of the empire and the country. The two-headed eagle refers to the duality of king and emperor.

After the end of the H.R.E. (1806), the eagle was still used by Austria, Prussia and some other countries in the German speaking area. (And of course various other countries in the world, from the US to Russia.) So it was a kind of natural choice to pick the eagle for the Deutsches Reich founded in 1871. The crown on its head was removed when that country became a republic in 1918-19.

The nazis added their party logo, the swastika, in 1933 (misusing an old symbol of luck), and of course that was removed at the end of WW2. But the eagle stayed, and was once again an obvious choice when the Federal Republic was founded. That is why I find it somewhat peculiar, to put it mildly, when someone states that most German coins have a swastika ...

Christian

 

This person does not speak for all of us. He or she sounds like they're just getting into coins and probably happened to see a few WWII era coins somewhere. Personally I'm practically swimming in German empire coins.

 

I should have qualified my post. I searched for German coins on ebay and "most" coins that came up were from the thirties.
I will be more careful to notice the "dates".

 

A nice Qarakhanid dirhem arrived today. Uzgen, AH399

 

See, you need to find more coins from "before" and "after". I am in Germany and do have political issues with statements such as, oh, those nazi years were just a small part of our history. But believe me, there are loots of coins from around here that do not have any swastikas ...

Christian

 

Even the Nazi coins didn't have swastikas until the late 30s IIRC... at least the "silver crown" type coins.

 

A couple of really little things I picked up lately. The Katanga copper franc gets me started on my collection of circulated coins issued by self-declared states that never gained international recognition. Katanga was a southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that declared independence in 1960 and was crushed in a brutal war.


This Trinidad and Tobago dollar was a sort of throw-in from the same transaction. Krause says this one was only issued as a proof, but clearly its surfaces have been a bit damaged from improper storage. There are light, superficial hairlines on the obverse, which are extremely evident in this picture. The reverse is quite nice, though. The composition is nickel, and despite an ultra-low mintage of just 2000 the coin would only be worth $6 even in its original condition, according to Krause, and I paid $3 for it.

 

Garrison Church, 2 and 5 RM: as from 1934.

 

Picked these up the other day., just because i like the design.

 

Fair enough! I was going on an increasingly faulty short-term memory.

 

I especially like the Colombian.

 

I've been on a 5 Kopek kick recently. This one (IMHO) is exceptional.

 

I've been trying to get a nice one recently but I get cleo'd when I try on cng

 

Just came today, 1791 VOC Galle (Ceylon) 2 stuiver dump, 25.7 grams, 24mm D