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Australia
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I collect all gold and silver plated coins. Fun and cheap to collect.
But they do not have collector value; essentially, they are damaged coins.
Occasionally, gold plated coins are commercially produced and marketed to collectors. In most of these cases, such coins have no extra value.
In the case of the coin pictured, plating will help to preserve it.
In the very long term, the atoms of gold and copper will intermingle, at the plating interface, and if the plating is very thin, the copper will eventually show through.
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 Australia
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Privately plated. Reason unknown. Minimal collector interest.
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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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Minimal collector interest. I would qualify that with "minimal numismatic interest." There is always a healthy market for Nazi memorabilia (unfortunately). |
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United States
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I would think most people who collect Nazi stuff are not really glorifying nazis, but just preserving history right? I collect WWI and WWII US firearms..don't have any Axis stuff.. well actually I do have a WWII Japanese grenade, it doesn't mean I like what they did.. I see it as a grenade that didn't kill any Americans!
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I would think most people who collect Nazi stuff are not really glorifying nazis, but just preserving history right? I collect WWI and WWII US firearms..don't have any Axis stuff.. well actually I do have a WWII Japanese grenade, it doesn't mean I like what they did.. I see it as a grenade that didn't kill any Americans! This is probably true. Certainly most world coin collectors will own Nazi-era coins as part of an overall "German coin collection", rather than a specifically "Nazi coin collection", and the few collectors I do know who do specialize in Nazi Germany do so in the spirit of "never again" memorialization, rather than Nazi glorification. And certainly, these "true coin collectors" wouldn't want a gaudily plated Nazi coin. It is also true that many people simply refuse to own a coin with a swastika boldly stamped on it, and would probably prefer that all such coins were destroyed. It's even illegal in some countries to own or sell Nazi-era coins. Which is why people selling such items on ebay tend not to list "Worldwide" as their target audience. 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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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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There are no right and wrong things for a collection. We collect history, we don't write it. A lot of people are interested in the history of WWII war and they collect both things of the British, French, Russians and Germans. You can't look at history only from one angle, you need to know the history from both sides, then it will help to understand the reasons for certain actions.
You can condemn me, but I want to have one of the coins/banknotes of concentration camps or ghettos in my collection. When I found out about the existence of such money, I was surprised and studied this issue a little more accurately.
We must preserve all things, regardless of who they belonged to and which nation. This is the story.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've owned Nazi Germany coins.
You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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