East German Commemorative Coins: The Collector Market 25 Years Later

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CoinWeek Valued Member United States 127 Posts	Posted 03/19/2015 11:30 am The following is an article excerpt from Coinweek Oct. 3, 1990 was an historic date for Germany and the world as the five constituent provinces of the former German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR or East Germany) gained admission to the Federal Republic of Germany, thus ending nearly 50 years of division growing out of catastrophic defeat in the Second World War. Unification also ended East German coinage that began in 1948 and a commemorative coin series initiated in 1966. Many collectors seek to complete series with clearly defined beginnings and endings, and the DDR coinage is certainly a candidate for such interest. Assembling a complete type collection of this complex country is certainly possible. Read the Entire Article Report this Post to the Staff

coinworldtv Pillar of the Community Austria 566 Posts	Posted 03/19/2015 12:21 pm Indeed, these coins have potential as they have suffered a great devaluation in the past 10 years. I would love to see them coming back at their old prices from 10 years ago. Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 03/19/2015 7:16 pm Kind of odd to use the German-language abbreviation " DDR", instead of "GDR", in an English language text. What makes things worse is that the automatically added explanation has nothing to do with the country. ;) As far as I am concerned, I find especially those GDR coins interesting that correspond to issues of the Federal Republic. Don't aim at being complete but I do have a few nicely designed ones ... Christian Edited by chrisild 03/19/2015 7:16 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Eurocoin Valued Member Finland 294 Posts	Posted 03/20/2015 11:53 am " DDR" and "USA" are like brands, at least yellow journalists use those names in Finnish articles too. I have been interest in commems of European communist countries as designs are usually nice and they are full of history. The sad thing is that the history is starting to repeat itself again... Report this Post to the Staff
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