Calling on all Darksiders...any Nazi gold coins?
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I have no clue, which says alot. Did the German gov't every produce a gold coinage during Hitler's reign? I've seen some plated material selling on the Bay of E
Prost!
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
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By the time the war began they'd even quit making silver coins, and from then on it was pretty much all zinc or aluminum garbage.
Any "gold" Nazi material you see on eBay is either plated or a fantasy issue.
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<< <i>What LordM said. I hate seeing those gold-plated nazi silvers on eBay. People just assume that if you gold plate something, it can be sold for stupid money.
P.S. - Please post any future darkside inquiries on the World and Ancient Coin Forums. >>
Will do. I must be tired tonight. I went down the list looking for it earlier and didn't see it, just now I find it at the top....
Why step over the dollar to get to the cent? Because it's a 55DDO.
If it weren't for a few occasional doses of Darkside sanity, the flame wars would've burnt this place down by now.
<< <i>A few Darkside posts on the US Coin Forum keeps it balanced and healthy. Sort of like vitamins.
If it weren't for a few occasional doses of Darkside sanity, the flame wars would've burnt this place down by now.
I know. I just felt the need to be forum cop.
and not ....gold. Silver.
<< <i>any Nazi gold coins? >>
i believe the answer is no.
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I agree stupid money is often paid for this rubbish.
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<< <i>Well....not exactly a .....coin.......
and not ....gold. Silver. >>
Odd. The reverse of that coin is similar to a 1994 German issue that commemorates the assasination attempt of Hitler.
patterns after 1939 listed in Krause.
Don't be too quick to dismiss the aluminum and zinc junk made by the nazis. Some of this
material is extremely elusive in attractive condition and lists for up to $20,000. Even the
common junk made for homeland use lists for up to $500 in unc.
Most of the nazi coins were exceedingly common in gem when issued but are now scarce
even in attractive circulated conditions in many cases.
<< <i>I once saw an ad in the back of Coins magazine years ago for silver bricks bearing the nazi swastika. I would imagine any silver or gold coins, artifacts, bars, etc. from the 3rd reich would be considered contraband, since the source of the precious metal used is questionable. I wouldn't buy nazi coinage. >>
Hardly. Where would one draw the line? The world can't stop periodically and erase all traces
of its past. Some of these things can also serve as a reminder of an evil time which must not
be repeated.
<< <i>The US is the one of just a few western nations that allows the trading of Nazi memorabilia. It is a banned practice all across Europe. I don't think people should derive enjoyment from collecting items that are symbols of death and suffering to millions of people. >>
Actually, principally aside from France, Germany and Italy, it hasn't been banned. Although there might be something recent in EU law that I am unaware of which extends a ban to all member nations, I've noticed no changes in trade of such material. In any case, those are the three main countries that required eBay to not permit trade of such material on "their" eBays or for it to be sold to their citizens. Numismatic and philatelic items were originally excluded from the ban and I believe they remain so (or else eBay's enforcement of any tighter restrictions has grown lax -- always a distinct possibility).
I disagree that people shouldn't be allowed to collect coins of fascists regimes -- or of communist regimes, which murdered even more people in the 20th century than the fascists managed to kill. There's a saying popularized by the ANA to the effect that "coins are history in our hands." In a day when there are already academics and politicians claiming that there was no Holocaust, I believe it is important to be able to preserve the reality of such regimes' existence lest they ever be romanticized.
Several years ago, I gave the teachers and officers of a Sunday School department I led an appreciation gift of Widow's Mites. I can still remember their expressions at being able to hold in their hands a coin that actually circulated at the time Jesus Christ was alive and which may very well have passed through the hands of people known to us from the Bible. Being able to touch them made it more "real" and less "history from a book." The same is true of Nazi coins, which circulated in a regime which was the antithesis of Christ's teachings. Touch conveys a greater sense of intimacy with the past than do vision or hearing or imagination. There are some things we need to never forget the reality of.
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Or maybe we should destroy this Japanese military currency----The Japanese government did some brutal things during that era also.
Nazi memorabilia is another matter.
Regarding Nazi gold coins, as a technicality, I say that they do indeed exist. I have seen one, and have heard of two other contemporary counterfeit gold 10 pfennig (regular issues are brass) used for smuggling gold out of Germany.
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<< <i>Actually, principally aside from France, Germany and Italy, it hasn't been banned >>
I live in Germany. I can buy plenty of Nazi stuff here.
the trade in nazi memorabilia has been directed at the neo-nazis. Most of the interest in
this material comes from everyday citizens, collectors, historians, etc, but there are some
who use these as symbols of "better" times.