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German Pattern/Trials Question

Doe anyone know what the following things are?

Urmodell
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Motivprobe
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I anyone can point to the reference or translate it would be nice.

Thanks

Daniil

Comments

  • UdoUdo Posts: 984 ✭✭
    Everytime when a new commemorative coin will be issued, a jury, consisting of some numismatists, coindealers and officials decides what the theme of the coin should be. When they made their decision about the theme, the "Bundesamt für Bauwesen" is starting a competition for the design of the coin. Some selected artists/engravers will participate to the competition and the design of one of them will be chosen to be strucked on the planchets.

    What you found are two different patterns/ trial strikes of coin designs from participating artists in some of the competitions in 1968 and 1969. These designs were never realized, except on these patterns. Btw, they are RRR

    Udo
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  • Thank you
  • wildjagwildjag Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    I like them, especially the Fontane image
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