Why Old German Coins Are Beautiful Than Others ?

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plonker Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 01/26/2013 10:37 pm I thought I should share this beautiful sharp detailed coin I found while browsing MA shop. It goes straight in to my wish list as I cant afford it The question I have is how come these German coin designs are so sharp and lot more detailed compared to coins from other countries of the same period ? Perhaps having abundance of silver let the German kings to come up with large silver coins with beautiful designs ? or just the skilled craftsmanship ? Here is large photo of the same coin, http://www.ma-shops.com/loebbers/it...5007&lang=en Report this Post to the Staff

rachums107 Pillar of the Community United States 3345 Posts	Posted 01/26/2013 10:42 pm That is absolutely gorgeous! Now that I look closer, it appears to have some serious doubling going on~ I have no idea why they look better than the others I do have a 1787 1/12 thaler that I believe is from an extinct province in Germany. You will notice that the strike on the thaler is worse than the strike on the coin you posted, even though its 161 years older. Interesting. Edited by rachums107 01/26/2013 10:43 pm Report this Post to the Staff
plonker Valued Member United States 462 Posts	Posted 01/26/2013 11:02 pm HI rachums107, I see what you mean about the strike. I believe the older coin I posted is a hammered coin vs yours from Brunswick Wolfenbuttel which I believe is a machined press. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16842 Posts	Posted 01/27/2013 01:25 am Old German coins are big, bold and beautiful because of the large number of aristocratic coin collectors in Germany at the time. These coins are basically NCLT. "Germany" was divided into hundreds of little tiny principalities, duchies etc and many of them owned coin collections. The aristocrats collected their own coins as well as selling coins to their counterparts in other duchies. As such, there was a lot of competition between the states to make the best coins, and a lot of pressure on mintmasters to improve their craft and devise ways of making coins that were better and more attractive than those of their neighbours. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1064 Posts	Posted 01/27/2013 03:14 am Coin collecting and liking trains seems to be something inbuilt within the German mind. They've been doing it for a long time and still do it more than most countries. Report this Post to the Staff
austrokiwi Pillar of the Community 2087 Posts	Posted 01/27/2013 04:34 am Quote: Coin collecting and liking trains seems to be something inbuilt within the German mind. They've been doing it for a long time and still do it more than most countries. I would add that there seems to have been considerable competition between each of the German speaking kingdoms(principalities) as well as the non German speaking (I am excluding Spain and France from this statement) members states of the Holy Roman Empire. Each tried to outdo the others in one way or another. What astounds me is the fact that these spectacular coins were engraved by hand directly onto the die face in mirror image form. Coin engravers spent years learning their craft and often suffered from RSI. BTW what is it with the train fixation? Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1064 Posts	Posted 01/27/2013 05:20 am The train fixation. Well, they do like their model train sets (and other modelling too), I loved the little naturist people you can have with extremely large body parts that might be considered rude in other countries, and this for sale in the local toy shop. I remember being in Riga, and tired, so I took a but of a boat tour thing up and down the river, and it was basically me and some old Germans. Then a train went over the bridge, and the men all nearly wet themselves. They love their trains in a way that maybe my father's generation did in the UK, even with modern trains. Report this Post to the Staff
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