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Pillar of the Community
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My Father (still alive and 94 this month) served with the R.A.F. on the bombing runs over Germany with many American fliers. He won't talk about "The War" and I don't think that he would appreciate my having a few Nazi coins, but I don't see the harm. I think that it is a 'generational' (experience) thing.
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Germany
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Keeping Nazi coins as part of a broader collection of German or world coins also offers the opportunity to glimpse what life was like for people living under the regime. Well, for quite a few collectors over here (Germany, and maybe most parts of Continental Europe) it is indeed fairly normal to have coins from Nazi Germany as part of a Germany collection. But then there are also those who will collect nazi coins as the only pieces from Germany, and that is what I find a little strange to put it mildly. Guess that there are some who glorify the regime - certainly a minority. For others outside Europe, that thing called Germany apparently came into existence in 1933 (or 1914 at best) and ceased to exist very shortly after 1945. ;) Christian |
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Canada
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There are some people with deep superstitions that owning Nazi memorabilia is bad luck, like it's ultra haunted. I don't own any, but that's because the obverse is ugly. Maybe down the road I'll own some, but Hitler wasn't a contemporary dictator for me. I'm more interested in Idi Amin, Muahmar Gadaffi, Robert Mugabe, etc.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nazi coins are now historical artifacts, same as Roman coins. Keep politics out of it and enjoy them as a part of history.
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New Member
United Kingdom
29 Posts |
Providing what happend during that time of history some of the coins have really nice designs
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New Member
Italy
26 Posts |
Following on from 0xDA71D. I agree... don't deceive yourself that these coins are expensive because they belong to the Nazi period. In fact, most of them don't have significant numismatic value. I too collected them many years ago, since they were an affordable area of coin collecting with considerable historical clout i.e. historical interest. As everyone else said, it's a valid theme to collect. Whether the regime was good or bad is quite independent to their historical significance.
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Valued Member
Turkey
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I am a Turk whose family has left it's homeland in balkans because bulgar and greek bandits were setting turkish villages in balkans on fire. But I still collect coins of provisional governments which are formerly ottoman states. So you can perfectly keep the nazi coins I guess.
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United States
331 Posts |
This is a little out of the realm of what you were asking (paper money) but the historical history is fascinating!  When you neglect history, it sometimes comes back around as new! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
541 Posts |
Never let anyone tell you what you can and can not collect!
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United States
301 Posts |
I see no problem with owning them...anyone who judges should get rid of all their PRE1865 US coins as to not support slavery!! |
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