Hitler

thanks Sap,that answers my question...very informative!

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and here is a fine example of what I said

http://www.usmbooks.com/hitler_coin.html

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Ouch. Nazi medals may be very popular in the US, but obviously the people who sell such pieces do not necessarily know much about politics or history. :) Quote from that page:

"The German Government of course, was not amused. They have done everything in their power to help people to forget that Hitler once held the job of Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. The coins were driven from the market shortly after they began to sell and we suspect that few survive."

Maybe that dealer had to write such nonsense in order to promote the sale of his medal. But because people know pretty well what position Hitler had and what his regime did, such crude comparisons won't work. Kohl and Schröder had the office of Bundeskanzler (head of government) of the Federal Republic - Hitler was Führer (head of state) and Reichskanzler of the German (Third) Reich.

Insinuating a continuity here is pretty shabby in my opinion. The reason why such pieces cannot be marketed here is a different one: Medals like that one, produced quite a while after 1945, are considered nazi propaganda. (That does not apply to coins and militaria etc. from the nazi years.) But if US customers find such medals interesting, there is nothing that keeps them from producing, selling, buying, collecting them.

As for why there are no coins depicting Hitler, well, in 1941 there had already been a design competition for 2 and 5 RM coins featuring him. But production was not to begin until the final victory ... Similarly, Mussolini cannot be found on any Italian coin. Franco in Spain only shows up after WW2, in the late 1940s/early 50s. And while there are coins featuring Stalin (from Czechoslovakia, I think), there is none from the USSR.

Christian

What's a puss?

According to Dictionary.com's 2nd definition...

1. face: She smacked him in the puss.
2. mouth: Shut your puss before I shut it for you.

Or in other words; mug, countenance, visage...

Ah... and which brave people made such a coin.. lol

lol this happens a fair bit: everyone is wondering about why something happened/didn't happen, or wondering about coins, and sap comes along a gives a well detailed answer! This is another example..

This medalist was apparently quite self-confident. The Hitler coin design competition had been a year earlier, and was won by somebody named Müller-Erfurt. Source: the very same Kurt Jaeger.

Christian

THANKS AGAIN guys.....Ive think Ive learned quite a bit from this thread

you guys are great