Posted 02/21/2008 06:56 am
The designs are distinctly wrong, of you put them side by side with the "real thing". The one that looks "least wrong" is the 10 pfennig in the second batch of photos. Secondly, most of the "silver" coins are obviously made of some kind of plated base metal, like pewter. But I also assume they're all a lot smaller than the real thing, too.
The ones in the bottom pic are most obviously play money. Three of them (the two fives and the ten) give the maker's name where "Deutsches Reich" and the date should go: L. CHR. LAUER'S SPIELMÜNZE. The Lauers were one of the later dynasties of token and jeton manufacturers from the city of Nuremberg, and on the back of these coins, the Nuremberg harpy (a human-headed bird) has replaced the German imperial eagle. The manufacturer in this instance is the company founded by Ludwig Christian Lauer. The link goes to a translation of a German numismatic wiki; understandably, most of the information about these "coins" on the Web is in German.
Although they don't say so, the others are probably also products of Lauer's company.
The ones in the bottom pic are most obviously play money. Three of them (the two fives and the ten) give the maker's name where "Deutsches Reich" and the date should go: L. CHR. LAUER'S SPIELMÜNZE. The Lauers were one of the later dynasties of token and jeton manufacturers from the city of Nuremberg, and on the back of these coins, the Nuremberg harpy (a human-headed bird) has replaced the German imperial eagle. The manufacturer in this instance is the company founded by Ludwig Christian Lauer. The link goes to a translation of a German numismatic wiki; understandably, most of the information about these "coins" on the Web is in German.
Although they don't say so, the others are probably also products of Lauer's company.
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