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Von Hindenburg Coin From 1989

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 Posted 11/21/2011  10:10 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Cubfan1983 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Ok, so I'm about ready to give it up... I can't find any info on the net, so I ask for your help!

I have a coin that looks exactly like the one in this picture ...

http://www.muenzauktion.com/kohlros...2-1plus2.jpg

If you can't pull it up, here's a description...

Obverse: Right-facing profile of Paul von Hindenburg; the name "Paul von Hindenburg"; the years "1847-1934"

Reverse: Nazi eagle, wreath, swastika; the number "2"; the words "Deutsches Reich"; the year "1939"

The difference between my coin and the one pictured is this - the pictured coin bears the word "Reichsmark"; my coin, instead of that word, has the year "1989".

Does anyone have ANY info on this coin (e.g., composition, year, commemorative, country, etc.)? Count me stumped (or, I suppose, stumpft)!
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Oh yes - and my coin does NOT have a mintmark. The one in the pic has a "D"; the spot on my coin is blank.
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 Posted 11/24/2011  4:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add maudry to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Difficult to say without a decent picture of your piece.
I believe it is a private token issued to commemorate some kind of anniversary.
What is the diameter and weight of it?
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 Posted 11/25/2011  12:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's definitely not an official German government issue - they'd never make a commemorative coin with the swastika on it.

I know the Chinese counterfeiters love to make coins with false dates on them - ASEs dated "1906" or Royal Wedding crowns dated "1086". I've never heard of them making fake Nazi coins, but I wouldn't put it past them.
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I have the same piece.

It has a lettered edge - 50 year German Commemorative - solid German silver

German silver has NO silver in it - It consists of nickel, zinc, copper

If this was a German issue, it would not have an English legend on the rim.

I was thinking that it may have been issued on Hitler's 100th anniversary of birth - 1889-1989.



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