What's up plebs?!
Looks like this is the end of the line! It's been what? Two? Maybe three years but finally we have reached the last piece of my silver Deutsche mark collection. This is the last one!
Let's see what I got for you today!
So, this is a 1991 piece minted for the 200 years of the Bradenburger Gate in Berlin (Brandenburger Tor) an 18th-century neoclassical monument and one of the best-known landmarks of the country:
It was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. source
Here's a photo of how it looks like, chances are you have already seen it in a movie, documentary or whatever:
When the coin is flipped, as always, we get a unique design of the imperial eagle, minting date and denomination:
Nice one :)
And as always we get a unique engraved text on the edge:
It reads
DEUTSCHLAND EINIG VATERLAND
For
Germany, united fatherland" or "Germany, one fatherland."
The Brandenburg Gate became a powerful symbol of a unified Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall which was next to it, so it's a fitting quote!
If you have read any of my countless posts on German coins than you know we have a 15.5 g coin of 0.625 purity. The standard recipe for German commemorative coins prior to 2000 :)
And here are some more boring semantics from Numista in case you care:
Issuer Federal Republic of Germany
Period Federal Republic (1949-date)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 1991
Value 10 Deutsche Mark (10 DEM)
Currency Deutsche Mark (1948-2001)
Composition Silver (.625)
Weight 15.5 g
Diameter 32.5 mm
Thickness 2.25 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 31 December 2001
And this my fellow plebs concludes today's coin, featuring one of the most important and popular monuments of Germany!
I guess it's time to visit other countries more regularly now that I have run out of German silver....?
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Fun Numismatics Posts
Enjoyed the post? Here is some more fun silver/numismatics themed content I have written in the past that you may enjoy:
- The country that uses plastic coins!
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- My favorite piece from the stack
- The 10 Million Dollar Coin
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- The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill ?!?!
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- Manchukuo's Fiber Coins from 1945
And don't forget to join me in the silver gold stackers discord where I hang around! We are a fun bunch, I promise! Just click here!
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