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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2313700, member: 39&quot;]Nice set! Apparently a third party issue, as the GDR would not have put &quot;East Germany&quot; on its sets, and they would have added the 2 M and 5 M coins. By the way, from what I have read, the reason why the 20 Pf coin is a brass (and not aluminum) pieces was that &quot;alu&quot; would not work well with pay phones.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &quot;zones&quot;, at the end of WW2 Germany was split into four zones. The territories east of the Oder-Neiße Line became part of Poland and the USSR, and the Saarland got an autonomous status (and had its own money, a local version of the French franc) - those parts did not have the status of occupation zones. In 1949 the three Western zones formed the Federal Republic of Germany; a few months later the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1957 Saarland joined the Federal Republic (and two years later introduced the Deutsche Mark); in mid-1990 the GDR (East G.) adopted the DM and, six months later, the states on its territory joined the Federal Republic. What I have always found kind of strange: The CoA of the GDR has the circular wreath like many other countries associated with the USSR, but it never had a star at the top ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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