The second coin that I intended on receiving on the eighth of June, instead arrived on the tenth.
I caught this coin from the same seller where I bought the 1893 Indian Head Cent. Hoping both coins would come at the same time.
What struck me was the date, the history behind the coin. I actually took pause before buying the coin and did some history searching on the coin as much as possible, as well as the history of Germany at that time before the First World War.
The date, 1911, isn't seen very well as I did not do a very good job at photographing the coin on both sides and for that I apologize. It does say 1911 though. The fact that the coin was in such a condition and being over hundred and ten years old and you could still read the words and make out the symbols and the designs were just amazing to me!! I just had to pick it up.
I would have never thought as far back as the first of June of this year that I would be collecting foreign coins, with the exception of the occasional coin that made its way across the board from the nation of CANADA. I figured that Canadian coins were inevitably going to cross my path at some point.
I saw this coin from 1911 Germany and that was when Kaiser Wilhelm II was in power.
Wilhelm II was also in power during the First World War and he eventually would abdicate and flee to The Netherlands. He was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. The fall from power and grace was the great marker to the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern Dynasty's 400 plus year rule over the lands of Prussia.
I digress before I get too heavy and boring with the history lesson.
Even though the coin came a little later than expected, I was still happy with it. It will probably be the only one that I actively attempt to purchase, unless someone who knows that I restarted this hobby find something that they feel that I would enjoy. Either that or my younger brother who lives in Germany might send something of the nation's old currency because Germany has gone to the EU and now uses the Euro. The Deutsches Mark is no longer in circulation.
I thought about making another post about a topic that has to do with Germany and its leaders on coins, but I think that I will finish this post and include it here instead.
I saw something on eBay that looked awkward. It was nothing something that I was familiar with and I did some research with.
To put this as delicately but as firmly as possible to drive home the point:
Germany NEVER put the face of their old leader on ANY of their currency. Neither coin nor paper money. The old leader being the person who was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 until 1945. There ARE legitimate coins with the standard imagery, such as the swastika and eagle, but not the face of the leader.
I saw an item that made it look very similar to the Jefferson nickel but instead it was the German leader's head. It was wildly fake, and the price to buy it was incredibly ridiculous and I believe that the seller was trying to earn money and profit off of someone who was ignorant to that fact that he never was on any official currency of any kind. Other than being on a token or some kind of souvenir, he did not give his consent for his likeness to be put on any currency so if you see something like that, just know it's just for fun and that it is not actual currency. It's just a plaything, a token, a replica. And undoubtedly a bad plaything at that!! That is all I wish to say about it.
Stay tuned as I did purchase one coin today. I will blog about it once I receive it. Thank you all for your support and reading these so far. I appreciate all of you. I will have some links for you in a later post so that you can find me outside of Blogger. (That is, if you haven't already! Chances are you saw where I posted this link and clicked on it to read all about what I had to say. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.)
I caught this coin from the same seller where I bought the 1893 Indian Head Cent. Hoping both coins would come at the same time.
What struck me was the date, the history behind the coin. I actually took pause before buying the coin and did some history searching on the coin as much as possible, as well as the history of Germany at that time before the First World War.
The date, 1911, isn't seen very well as I did not do a very good job at photographing the coin on both sides and for that I apologize. It does say 1911 though. The fact that the coin was in such a condition and being over hundred and ten years old and you could still read the words and make out the symbols and the designs were just amazing to me!! I just had to pick it up.
I would have never thought as far back as the first of June of this year that I would be collecting foreign coins, with the exception of the occasional coin that made its way across the board from the nation of CANADA. I figured that Canadian coins were inevitably going to cross my path at some point.
I saw this coin from 1911 Germany and that was when Kaiser Wilhelm II was in power.
Wilhelm II was also in power during the First World War and he eventually would abdicate and flee to The Netherlands. He was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. The fall from power and grace was the great marker to the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern Dynasty's 400 plus year rule over the lands of Prussia.
I digress before I get too heavy and boring with the history lesson.
Even though the coin came a little later than expected, I was still happy with it. It will probably be the only one that I actively attempt to purchase, unless someone who knows that I restarted this hobby find something that they feel that I would enjoy. Either that or my younger brother who lives in Germany might send something of the nation's old currency because Germany has gone to the EU and now uses the Euro. The Deutsches Mark is no longer in circulation.
I thought about making another post about a topic that has to do with Germany and its leaders on coins, but I think that I will finish this post and include it here instead.
I saw something on eBay that looked awkward. It was nothing something that I was familiar with and I did some research with.
To put this as delicately but as firmly as possible to drive home the point:
Germany NEVER put the face of their old leader on ANY of their currency. Neither coin nor paper money. The old leader being the person who was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 until 1945. There ARE legitimate coins with the standard imagery, such as the swastika and eagle, but not the face of the leader.
I saw an item that made it look very similar to the Jefferson nickel but instead it was the German leader's head. It was wildly fake, and the price to buy it was incredibly ridiculous and I believe that the seller was trying to earn money and profit off of someone who was ignorant to that fact that he never was on any official currency of any kind. Other than being on a token or some kind of souvenir, he did not give his consent for his likeness to be put on any currency so if you see something like that, just know it's just for fun and that it is not actual currency. It's just a plaything, a token, a replica. And undoubtedly a bad plaything at that!! That is all I wish to say about it.
Stay tuned as I did purchase one coin today. I will blog about it once I receive it. Thank you all for your support and reading these so far. I appreciate all of you. I will have some links for you in a later post so that you can find me outside of Blogger. (That is, if you haven't already! Chances are you saw where I posted this link and clicked on it to read all about what I had to say. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.)
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