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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2411842, member: 39&quot;]Cannot really tell you much about those pieces, sorry. But it&#039;s good to know that you did not pay more than the melt value. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Problem is, anybody can have medals made and sell them; later there is hardly any market for them, with exceptions for certain designers for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle of the upper piece was designed after the one used on the 5 DM coin (1975-1996), and Ludwig Erhard was federal minister (secretary) of economics, and later chancellor (head of government). &quot;Soziale Marktwirtschaft&quot; is basically how our economy works or is supposed to work, a combination of capitalism and social responsibility. The Ludwig Erhard Foundation (Stiftung) which may have issued the medal is in Bonn.</p><p><br /></p><p>The octagonal medal uses the design of the 1 DM coin (with the added &quot;40 years&quot;), an eagle that looks to the wrong side <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and the first words of our national anthem. The Federal Republic of Germany issued &quot;DM anniversary&quot; coins in 1988 (2 DM Cu-Ni, made for circulation until 1996) and 1998 (10 DM Ag) ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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