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Very nice!

Magdeburg -- 1/24 thaler, 1680:

1864 Saxony-Albertine 2 Neu Groschen

I think it's a standard image found on Magdeburg coins.

I always like to think of it as someone on the city walls throwing bombs or boiling oil down on the Papal Army, during the siege of 1631 (one of the high points of the Thirty Year's War).

County of Stolberg (Stolberg-Stolberg) -- 1/24 thaler, 1726:

That looks magnificent and beautifully toned.

Nice job, Pep, you're posting some wonderfully pleasing & scarcer pieces lately :)

This is a special coin (for me) that I was fortunate enough to finally obtain an example as they are scarce.

Undated (probably 1915-1925) 10 Pfennig octagonal privately issued Notgeld coin.

Zinc, 20.8mm. Ref: Hass. 160.4

This issue comes from a cotton mill in Blaichach (Oberallgäu), Bavaria, Germany. Located in the Alps near the Austrian border, the German B 19/B 308 federal highway is the main motorway (at the far east of town) and Kempten is the nearest major German city, a good bit north on the B 19/B 308.

Other relatively close landmarks include the Bodensee (to the west), the Zugspitze (to the east), Berchtesgaden (much further east), and the High Alps which make up the southern border between Austria and Germany.

The Swabian (Bavarian) dialect of German is spoken extensively in the region along with standard German.

My father Heinrich (Henry) was born in Blaichach in 1948 to a German mother and an American Army father (11th ACR Tank Bn @ Schongau.) They emigrated to the United States in 1956 to Fort Bliss, NM.

The cotton mill named on this coin (Allgäu Cotton Wool-Spinning & Weaving) was founded in the 1850s then taken over in 1870 by Karl Heinrich Gyr, a Swiss entrepeneur, philanthropist and businessman who would later become more well-known by way of the company Landis & Gyr, one of the largest manufacturers of electric meters in the world.

The factory and mills survived the war, and in 1950 with the cotton business in decline the properties were purchased by Robert Bosch GmbH and converted into manufacturing. The wool mill was officially de-registered as a company in 1960.

In modern Blaichach there is a street named after Heinrich Gyr, the Heinrich-Gyr-Straße, just west of the river from the B 19/B 308.




A Weimar-era postcard from Blaichach, which is stunningly beautiful, and a popular destination for hikers, skiers, and tourists. My dad used to say it was "like growing up in 'The Sound Of Music.'"