Can Anyone ID This Coin/Medal From Danzig? (1975/6 Danzig Silver Round)

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Zohar444 Pillar of the Community United States 1429 Posts	Posted 05/09/2009 09:14 am Report this Post to the Staff

huntsman53 Valued Member United States 224 Posts	Posted 05/11/2009 10:28 am It appears to be a 5 Gulden Coin Commemorating the 750 Year Anniversary of the founding of Danzig (Gdansk), Poland! I cannot find anything on the coin and don't know whether it was issued by Germany or Poland but the writing is in German. Danzig was annexed by the Germans during the early part of World War II. I am pretty sure that many folks there still speak and write in a German dialect and could be the reason for the Germanic lettering on the coin. I am sorry that I can't be of more help on the coin! Frank Report this Post to the Staff
DL20K Pillar of the Community Poland 3201 Posts	Posted 05/11/2009 2:23 pm It appears to be commemorating both 750th anniversary of Danzig and 100th anniversary of the Danzig Seamen's Union. Report this Post to the Staff
Zohar444 Pillar of the Community United States 1429 Posts	Posted 05/11/2009 2:24 pm Any catalog number - does it show in KM's unusual coins etc? Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 05/11/2009 3:34 pm Sorry Zohar, I don't see it in the Unusual coin catalog... Report this Post to the Staff
Zohar444 Pillar of the Community United States 1429 Posts	Posted 05/11/2009 8:49 pm Item received in hand. A real beauty! Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 05/14/2009 08:21 am Quote: It appears to be a 5 Gulden Coin Commemorating the 750 Year Anniversary of the founding of Danzig (Gdansk), Poland! I cannot find anything on the coin and don't know whether it was issued by Germany or Poland but the writing is in German. Danzig was annexed by the Germans during the early part of World War II. I am pretty sure that many folks there still speak and write in a German dialect and could be the reason for the Germanic lettering on the coin. Not a coin, and I don't think it was issued in Poland. Danzig was part of Prussia between 1814 and 1919, then became a Free City - an autonomous status vaguely similar to what Danzig/Gdank had had in the years before the Napoleonic Wars. In 1939 Nazi Germany occupied the city/country of Danzig; in 1945 it became part of Poland. This medal was obviously inspired by the Danzig Gulden coins issued in the 1920s. The lions with the CoA, and also the Hanse cog (from the oldest seal of the city), appear on several pieces from those years. Back then Danzig coins did have German inscriptions. But a Polish medal from the mid-1970s would not be in German, certainly not in German only. The Danziger Seeschiffer-Vereinigung for example http://freenet-homepage.de/danziger...chiffer.html is a club in Hamburg, so the piece may be from there ... Christian Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 05/19/2024 11:36 am Years too late, but here are a couple links to similar medalic silver rounds from various auctions: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2449927 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6885027 From their descriptions, it looks like these were minted in Danzig in 1975 or 1976. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187475 Posts	Posted 05/20/2024 09:21 am Excellent! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
retiredkper Pillar of the Community United States 541 Posts	Posted 05/27/2024 5:30 pm It is dated 1975, so it is just a nice collectible silver metal medal. Report this Post to the Staff
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