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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 8362984, member: 42034"]My 2nd coin purchase in all of 2022 and my 1st World Coin of 2022. Don't buy many pieces these days due to the very high market prices but I just got a notification that I got the following out of Heritage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484253[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is of course the German 5 Marks, 1930, featuring the Graf Zepplin. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. This airship made 590 successful flights including one around the globe. It has been called "the world's most successful airship" & has about 2 years of flight time! It was retired following the Hindenberg disaster.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Captain (Eckener) went to the US in 1938 trying to purchase helium for use instead of hydrogen but was unsuccessful. Eckener was outspoken about his dislike of the Nazi Party, and was warned about it by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diels" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diels" rel="nofollow">Rudolf Diels</a>, the head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" rel="nofollow">Gestapo</a>. FDR approved of selling the helium for the zepplins but by then, war with Germany was looming so the plan was shelved.</p><p>Much of this is from Wiki.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a coin note, I've been looking for this type for years but wanted a specimen in which the details of the zepplin were fully struck up. I found them in this NGC MS-64+ specimen. Pieces in lower grades are slightly more affordable but lacking these details. In a late nite moment, I decided to increase my bid to $30 or so more than the historical PR for these and it paid off.</p><p><br /></p><p> I hope to arrange for a Goodyear zeppelin ride as the one operational one is in my state and I'll definitely show them this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 8362984, member: 42034"]My 2nd coin purchase in all of 2022 and my 1st World Coin of 2022. Don't buy many pieces these days due to the very high market prices but I just got a notification that I got the following out of Heritage. [ATTACH=full]1484253[/ATTACH] This is of course the German 5 Marks, 1930, featuring the Graf Zepplin. LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. This airship made 590 successful flights including one around the globe. It has been called "the world's most successful airship" & has about 2 years of flight time! It was retired following the Hindenberg disaster. The Captain (Eckener) went to the US in 1938 trying to purchase helium for use instead of hydrogen but was unsuccessful. Eckener was outspoken about his dislike of the Nazi Party, and was warned about it by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diels']Rudolf Diels[/URL], the head of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo']Gestapo[/URL]. FDR approved of selling the helium for the zepplins but by then, war with Germany was looming so the plan was shelved. Much of this is from Wiki. On a coin note, I've been looking for this type for years but wanted a specimen in which the details of the zepplin were fully struck up. I found them in this NGC MS-64+ specimen. Pieces in lower grades are slightly more affordable but lacking these details. In a late nite moment, I decided to increase my bid to $30 or so more than the historical PR for these and it paid off. I hope to arrange for a Goodyear zeppelin ride as the one operational one is in my state and I'll definitely show them this coin.[/QUOTE]
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