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Help With Hitler Silver Coins.

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 Posted 05/29/2008  3:27 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add race58 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi:
I am new to this forum and I was hoping to get some help identifying two coins that I have. They are both silver and have Adolph Hitlers face on them. The one with the dates 1889-1945 is about 1 3/8 inches (Silver Dollar size) and the other is 1 inch in diameter (Quater Size).
I bought these back around 1990 when I was trying to get into coin collecting. At the time I was buying silver dollars from all around the world. 1 every other week. I have long since stopped doing that and sold my collection with the exception of a few these being part of that few. I have been told before though I don't remember by whom that these coins were made in 1989 somewhere in Germany but obviously not sanctioned by the government.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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 Posted 05/29/2008  4:10 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Both are modern day tokens. You will never find Hitler on a German coin past or future.

The first coin reads "The phrase means "one people, one country, one leader"
The second coin's reverse is the same design as a real Third Reich coin with Hindenburg and a "5" on it

Because of the toning on the coins it is possible they could be silver and actually have some intrinsic value.
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 Posted 05/30/2008  05:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are a couple of "Hitler coins" listed in my 1992 edition of the "Unusual World Coins" catalogue, which lists unofficial "coins", but neither of these coins are a match.

On NumisMaster (which has the online version of the catalogue) the lower one is listed as a 2 reichsmark, KMX# 27, made of "silver-plated brass". The top one isn't listed.
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 Posted 05/31/2008  1:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add atlashealth to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Melt it down and give the silver back to its rightful owners!
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 Posted 06/03/2008  02:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NumisMattyUk to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't do that
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 Posted 06/03/2008  09:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Melt it down and give the silver back to its rightful owners!

A bit extreme there, for two reasons:

1. These coins were not made by the Nazis while they were in power in Germany - the "1945" death date of Hitler shown on the top one, and the absence of either from my 1992 edition of "Unusual World Coins", confirms this. So the coins were not made from precious metals stolen by the Nazis.

2. At least one of them (and perhaps both of them) is, as I said before, silver-plated brass and not solid silver. Not much point in melting them down.

As for the OP's suggestion they were made in Germany, it's possible, but I doubt it. Such items are illegal to make, buy, sell or own in modern Germany (and in France, and probably several other nations in Europe, too). It would be a brave neo-Nazi movement indeed to openly defy such a ban, and they couldn't exactly sell them on the street as fundraisers. They are more likely to have been made in America, or somewhere else where no such prohibitions have applied.

Even though they weren't made by the Nazis, they were, however, most likely made by some kind of neo-Nazi organization, post-WWII. It is understandable that many people in today's society would rather not encourage the manufacture, purchase and ownership of such items, even in countries where doing so isn't actually illegal. I did a google search and found someone asking about a "coin" exactly like the top one on a German coin forum. They were warned it was illegal neo-Nazi propaganda and told the best place for it was the rubbish bin.
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 Posted 06/03/2008  4:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Also, not a coin, since Hitler was never on a coin.
Only on a stamp.

Tokens at best.

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