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Nice adds mrwiskers and bryan10au!

Yes WTG Bryan. I spent some time in West Germany in USAF and loved it. I have a couple/three interesting coins. Heres a Swede 2 kron cut in 1907 as I continue to explore the wars and pre-wars of the 19'th century's 1st 1/2.

In 1922 the Weimar Republic Govt. of Germany defaulted on payments oof WW1 reparations setting off a chain of events that would set off massive economic hardship and inflation that led to the rise of the Nazi movement.

In response to this default France and Belgium sent troops into Germany's main industrial area in the Ruhr Valley and occupied factorys, coal mines, railways, steel works , as the German workers resisted passively and some violence ensued as a vengeful western force demanded payment.

The immediate consequences of the occupation were not good for the Weimar government - they decided to print more money to pay the workers in the region, contributing to hyperinflation. A general strike (when all the workers in the country stopped work) was called, and political instability was rife.

This 500 Mark coin, struck in 1923 in the Bavarian mint, is a symbol to the economic strife that was to lead to the rise of fascism in Germany. I doubt it could have been used to buy even a small loaf of bread by that time.



The year before, in 1922, this 3 Mark coin was struck at the Berlin mint prior to the economic melt down.

Thanks Errors.

Germany was awarded the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia as part of the Munich Agreement of 1938, which they promptly violated by occupying and dismembering Czechoslovakia. The region of Slovakia was created and became a willing partner of Nazi Germany, declaring war on the western Allies along with it in Dec. 1941. Slovaks were already fighting along with the German forces against Russia on the eastern front.

In southern Slovakia Hungary demanded a slice of territory where many Hungarian peoples had settled. Slovakia was the first Nazi client state to round up and deport their Jews to Nazi camps where as many as 70,000 were murdered. All in all Slovakia was a willing partner to the Nazi state.


This coin of 20 Halieron was struck in Slovakia in 1942 as well.

Thank you Silverskunk very much appreciated.

Those are great additions from you Silverskunk.

Excellent coins Bryan and Skunk!!

Looking at the map you posted above and the current Slovakia/Hungary boundaries are different from what your map say was 'annexed by Hungary - do you know how long they held that much of the Slovakian country?

Thank you Dearborn and jbuck very much appreciated

Nice acquisitions, Silverskunk.