Odd Trend (German coin questions)

Darkhorse

I'm seeing a lot of gold-plated Third Reich coins on eBay for some reason.

Compa

Word is getting out that you shouldn't clean coins. Plating them gives them a nice fresh look!

cosmicdebris

Is that why that Hindenburgh was gold plated?

Askari

I haven't seen those -- and can't imagine why one would gold-plate them ... unless they're poor quality to start with. What will they think of next -- colorizing them? Uh, don't go there!

Darkhorse

Another question - Why are Weimar coins so expensive?

spoon

I dunno about those plated coins.. I've seen some odd circ coins with plating about, but not many. I can't imagine they'd sell anywhere but ebay

On the Weimar coins, I don't really bother with them coz they're pricey as you said, but I noticed that they seem pretty popular. Thing is, if you go to a show or a decent store they don't seem especially rare for type or quality? Maybe Askari can add a more informed comment.


So, Phil, how's the coin market in KA?

Darkhorse

The koin market in KA is kaput.

I live on Augartenstrasse and just across the Zoo on Karlstrasse is a place called the Münzenbox, it only has numitmatic products but no actual coins which is kind of infuriating. The other place, Kroker und Walsch has a poor selection. They have some nice coins but the nicest ones aren't for sale which is even more infuriating.

I wanted a 1901 Königreich anniversary 2 mark piece and they one they had for sale was lousy, they had another one but it was a sample only for the acrylic coin it was in. Maddening.

Darkhorse

And look:

Link

Askari

There are several reasons for the popularity of Weimar coinage. A lot of Weimar silver ended up melted for national payments of WWI reparations. Keeping in mind the Germans' version of the "Great Depression" -- much worse than ours, as bad as it was -- a lot of silver coinage was hoarded too. During WWII, a lot of it got spent on the black market, where it was melted to make it more portable (i.e., smuggle-able) since it was illegal to export silver and gold under the Nazi regime. Likewise, silver and gold were useful for Nazi officials to pay for their being smuggled to other lands, purchase false papers and/or citizenships, etc.

Darkhorse

It's a shame, some of the Weimar coins are really neat.

eric1509

Hello!

Yes there are also many gold plated coins in the German sectin of Ebay!
I dont know why, but some people may like them???!!!

Maybe you should try to search the Weimar coins at "ebay.de" there is a good choice of coins.
Ther is a own category for these coins

Weimar


Question to Darkhorse:

You added the Link to the gold plated Nazi coins.
You say you are in Karlsruhe right now, can you see the auctions og the coins???
I live also in germany but I can not open these auctions. I get a error from Ebay that it is forbidden in "my country".
I wrote that to ebay before because the Swastika it is not forbidden in Germany on coins and stamps!
I have made a new ebay profile from an other country but it is also locked! So I´m wondering that you can see the items???

Eric

spoon

Hi Eric! My name is also Eric and I'm in Germany too (Stuttgart)

I know what you mean about ebay. I can see right now 76 items listed on the link that Darkhorse gave, but not many of them can be clicked on? I think most of those are listed by the same seller and the problem may be in how he listed them. There are some on that page that I can click on. I've never had problems viewing Nazi coins on ebay, but in every other category, Maps, Books, whatever ebay blocks it if it simply mentions World War II in any way. (For example, I was looking for US military maps of the Pacific from during World War II, something that has nothing to do with the Nazis but ebay blocks me from seeing all of that here in Germany!!)

Askari

eBay is a little sneaky. They cue the anti-fascist block according to what language you use on your computer. I used to get the blocks too until I removed my German language option. Ditto France & Italy.

newsman

I wonder if any of those sellers are trying to fool buyers into believing those "shinney" plated coins are real Nazi gold?

eric1509

Hello spoon (Hi Eric ) and Askari and all the others out there!

Thank you for the information about the blocking at Ebay.
But there is no problem with the coins and stamps at ebay.de, they know about the problems
in the other Ebay´s.

Wishes from the german capitol of rain, Hamburg!

Eric

sumnom

What I really like about the Nazi "gold" auctions is that the coins are said to bear the likeness of Hitler when the coin is actually labelled "Paul von Hindenburg."

spoon

<< <i>eBay is a little sneaky. They cue the anti-fascist block according to what language you use on your computer. I used to get the blocks too until I removed my German language option. Ditto France & Italy. >>

I don't think it's that.. I wish it were. I tried removing German language supports from my browser and Win but I'm still blocked?? I think it's IP locations, I'm going thru T-Online. Maybe it's both? Annoying either way


Eric, I'm sorry for you.. It's nice and sunny down here today!
(OK, so it's only the first sunny day this week...)

Bbbut... sumnom.. they both have mustaches! How can you be sure it's not really Hilter with, y'know, someone else's name attached? Huh? huh?

Darkhorse

I surf ebay.de fairly often (Drei... Zwei... Eins... Meins!), there are many things available but never in the condition I'd like. I notice a lot of cleaned coins as well. Of course there's the language barrier as well.

I'd like the Frankfurt Taler from the 1860s with the frau or the Gedenkthaler one with the buildings. I don't know how much they usually run for though. I saw a great Swiss thaler in Stuttgart that I should've snatched up though but I felt obligated to buy German for some reason.

Askari

They may indeed use both methods, Eric & Eric. Another US eBayer told me that was how to fix my problem and it certainly did the trick. As shoddy as eBay's programming techniques are, I'm not surprised that there isn't the same problem with stamps or other problems with eBay.de.