Nazi Coins

I have a few and I treat them as any other.
What happened in that time was hoorible, but the coins had nothing to do with it.

History bears many unpleasant events, it is an opinion to be respected if someone does not want to have anything to remind those days.

Well,to answer my own question,ONLY from my personal point of view: I wish they would've never been born,and that the humanity never knew the events...call me stupid,but it is a big question within me if I should buy them,or if I ever want them around me...i guess i'll have to think more about it.
I agree with the fact that the coins are just...coins after all.But part of collecting is to know the history behind them.
Is just because I've seen them listed on ebay and I was wondering how other people here feel about the issue.

I think any sane person would curse the Nazi thought, because to me it is insane.
Not that there's even a bit of sane thing in what they've done, I think that WW2 is jus so hated because it is the most recent one.

To explain that, Throughout history, almost every country is inolved in a genocide, mass murder, I hesitate to give names but I think I can refer to my country's ancestors; Ottomans, their enlarging strategy has arised hatred against them. Bulgarian have a holiday to celebrate gaining independance from the Turks, they even have coins depicting that.
http://omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlar...px?id=907804
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http://omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlar...px?id=897626

I am not offended a bit by that, because they are right from the point they stand.


My point is; I don't think I can have any feelings towards an object because of the things it's owner may have done.

There is something serious that people have so far failed to mention. Appearently Swiss gold coin minted around 1945 used German gold, which does not seem to be any trouble. Except there is one major issue - traces of mercury has been detected only around these years, which is traced to the stash of German gold during the Nazi era.

Of course, if you know your history well enough, where could such gold be found, with traces of mercury? And let's not forget how bad the economy of Germany was in during that time.

Yes, gold extracted from the jews in concentration camps.

Now getting back to the topic, do you still think such coins are collectable or it is to a point where it honestly disgusts you? Of course, gold is gold, so it's still redeemable as money.

Some people don't have a choice. In France, I understand, it's illegal to collect Nazi memorabilia of any kind - this probably extends to coins. I seem to recall a test case in the French courts a couple of years ago where people complained that Nazi stuff was available on French ebay; IIRC, ebay lost and had to redesign the ebay France website to block all sales of Nazi material.

Personally, I don't have a problem with collecting Nazi coins; they are part of the German coin series just as the Third Reich is part of German history.

Willy, if you can painfully explain to me how traces of Mercury, which is an element only slightly heavier than gold itself, is removing during the refining process, I am more than interested to listen. Swiss gold bullion coins aren't 99.99% pure you know. Fineness of such coin is at .900 if I remember right.

We are talking mass spectrometry detection here, which can detect up to 0,001 microns of elements. I don't think refining techniques are that superior yet.

B. Traven's book "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" written in 1929 stated that no one would buy or wear gold if they knew the "hands it had passed through".
Romans, Spanish, etc.