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New Member
United States
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I found this German coin and cannot find any information on it. Any help would be wonderful as well is it worth anything.   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Moderator
 Australia
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It isn't a coin. It's a medal, issued by the Nazis in 1936 for sale as a fundraiser in their annual Winter charity drive, the Winterhilfswerk. Value? Sure, despite the Nazi legacy, Winterhilfswerk items seem to be popular collectables today. 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
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Valued Member
Romania
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Moderator
United States
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identified, moving to Tokens, Medals, and other Exonumia
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I gotta dip me lid to you again, Sap! You have come up with the goods yet again!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Does anybody know what the "1 S" means? First I thought of Austria (Schilling) but that would not make sense for that year. And yes, the motto (Die Kameradschaft ...) was used by the German WHW, see this martial poster: http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php...d_0=xx003464As for the worthpoint.com item description, that seems to focus on sales promotion rather than facts. The piece does not say "Gedenket Führer's Winter hilfe" but "Gedenket ihrer · Winterhilfe". That is, "think of them", or "remember them". Also, the seller does "not ship to Germany, France, Italy and Austria or any other Country that prohibits such items". Oh well. For some strange reason ;) you may of course buy such items here in Germany. Just not from that seller, I suppose, but writing about the Führer, and not shipping to DE, may make his auction sound more interesting for people in his country ... Christian |
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New Member
 United States
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Thank you everyone, I am glad I am learning more about this, it is quite interesting...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Christian, I think your first thought about this being a one schilling coin is correct. Though the Anschluss annexing Austria to Nazi Germany wasn't until 1938, there were still Nazis in Austria working toward that goal in 1936. It sees the Winterhilfe (from which Jews were banned from receiving relief in 1936) was one of their attempts to build good public relations. Here's another coin, minted by Nazis in the still-free Austrian Republic in 1936, in the Austrian denomination of 50 groschen:  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Winterhilfswerk was a good charity - its slogan was 'None Shall Starve Nor Freeze'. Money was collected and used to give the poor food, clothes and coal. A very effective form of Social Security. How they collected the money is another thing (it was, by all accounts, very intensively collected).
Not all Nazis were bad (brownshirts were the bad ones). They were Germans who supported their country.
These days, nothing is left from this period in Germany - even positive stuff like this - because of Goebbel's excellent propaganda program which slapped the Swastika on everything and anything. Thats why you'll find a lot of people wont touch this item. A lot of the time its a mark of respect - one side of my family was nearly totally eradicated at Bergen-Belsen (all of them that went there died there), so I wont be having any swastikas in my house.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It's a pity that the swastikas as portrayed on ancient Greek or Hindu coins have been "tarnished" by it's later use.
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