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 Posted 12/01/2010  8:52 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Silver Girl to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anyone tell me anything about either of these coins/medlas/tokens/whatever they are and how much they may be worth? Thanks!



German-Coins/Tokens

German-Coins/Tokens

German-Coins/Tokens

German-Coins/Tokens
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 Posted 12/02/2010  07:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrisild to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The first piece is a token or medal that commemorates the 25th anniversary of a shoe store chain in Austria. The company (or rather the product line) still exists, see http://www.delka.at/geschichte.html (in German, but you may recognize the logo).

As for the second one, apparently that was issued by the city of Mannheim (today in the German state of Baden-Württemberg). It honors Prince Elector Carl Theodor, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle...r_of_Bavaria The date refers to the homage in Mannheim on that day. Sorry, no idea about mintages or values ...

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 Posted 12/02/2010  07:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
#1 is in the German language, but isn't technically from Germany. Look at the fine print at the bottom of the top pic: "Hauptmunzamt Wien" - Central Mint, Vienna, which is of course in Austria. Just above this line are the tiny intials "J.P.". This website reports that someone named Josef Prinz was responsible for, among other items, "Austrian Mint Tokens, 1933 Del-Ka shoe store, 1936 New Year token". So we can be reasonably confident this is indeed the Del-Ka token struck by the Vienna Mint and designed by Josef Prinz. I think the Del-Ka shoe store is still operating in Vienna.

"Sich regen bringt Segen" is an old German proverb that literally translates to "work itself brings blessings" or, as Google Translate puts it more colloquially, "Do yourself a favour". It also appears on German 50 pfennig coins from the 1920s.

Item number two is a bit more mysterious; this webste has exactly the same pics of your coin that you've just posted.

Edit: I've got to type faster. Chrisild beat me to it!
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Thanks. the other website posting is also mine. They couldn't tell me any more than what I was able to figure out on my own. I really need the values, though, of these (even estimates), as they belong to the coin shop I work for.
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I don't know about values, either; since they're not coins, they're not listed in the coin catalogues. Both of them would probably be worth more in their home countries than in America.

At a complete stab-in-the-dark guess, I'd put the Del-Ka one at $10, and the Mannheim one at $15 to $20.

Now big are they, anyway? I've been assuming the Mannheim one is pretty small...
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