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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2408057, member: 39"]Ah, I have those too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The GDR had a somewhat strange concept when it came to "special" issues - almost all 5M coins were CuNi, while with the 10M and 20M it depended. The Buchenwald coin for example was made for domestic collectors too, with a total mintage of about 15 million, "surviving" mintage ~3.5 million. The 10M Heinrich Heine coin issued in the same year, however, was silver and had a mintage of about 100,000/55,000. Those coins were mostly exported ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle on the Federal Republic's Constitution Anniversary coin from 1974, by the way, was - unlike most other "coin eagles" - not really designed by the coin designer. This one is basically a small 2D version of the federal eagle (originally designed by Ludwig Gies) that is used by the Bundestag.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2408057, member: 39"]Ah, I have those too. ;) The GDR had a somewhat strange concept when it came to "special" issues - almost all 5M coins were CuNi, while with the 10M and 20M it depended. The Buchenwald coin for example was made for domestic collectors too, with a total mintage of about 15 million, "surviving" mintage ~3.5 million. The 10M Heinrich Heine coin issued in the same year, however, was silver and had a mintage of about 100,000/55,000. Those coins were mostly exported ... The eagle on the Federal Republic's Constitution Anniversary coin from 1974, by the way, was - unlike most other "coin eagles" - not really designed by the coin designer. This one is basically a small 2D version of the federal eagle (originally designed by Ludwig Gies) that is used by the Bundestag. Christian[/QUOTE]
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