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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3348359, member: 39&quot;]The next day I did see the Coin Cabinet sesquicentennial exhibition at the Bode Museum, part of what they called the &quot;Museum Island&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886641[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If the name of the museum rings a bell with anybody - yes, that is the place where that Canadian gold beast was stolen. This is also &quot;covered&quot; in the exhibition:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]886642[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This temporary exhibition was quite small, just one room, but its focus was on the founders and donors anyway. The permanent coin exhibition was a welcome enhancement. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886643[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here is a medal that commemorates the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Eastern states joining the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990. The gate was open until the Wall was built in 1961, and was opened again in Nov-1989 when the GDR regime came to its end. So making it open on this (large) medal is a good idea, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886644[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gold coins from Brandenburg-Prussia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886645[/ATTACH] </p><p>Byzantine gold coins from roughly between the 5th and 12th century. Note that making dome shaped pieces is not a 21c innovation ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886646[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a glass window (Switzerland, 1565) showing the minting process at that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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