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Collection of WW2 Dated Coins


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Here's a small collection of coins dated between 1939-1945 I found in a box of mixed coins recently.post-3823-0-11241700-1464858236_thumb.jpg

 

Top row British coins.

 

2nd row Irish. Australian, Belgium ( German minted Occupation coin ), Italian, French, and German.

 

Bottom row Swedish, and German.

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Here's 3 more coins, though not WW2 dated, these are post war German coins from the 1950, 1958, and 1973.post-3823-0-91067300-1464954621_thumb.jpgpost-3823-0-42047600-1464954637_thumb.jpg

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These postwar coins were in everyday use, apart from the aluminium one, which is GDR, until 31st December 2001. The next morning, the Euro was then official currency. The D-Mark currency was still accepted by many businesses for a while afterwards, incl. C&A - the rate was 1,95583 DM/Euro - this brought about inflation, everything went up by up to 4x - wages went down by 50 percent. Older people still think in terms of D-Mark.

The aluminium coin is the ill-fated East German Mark currency(known as Alu Chips) . It was officially replaced by the D-Mark in the "Währungsunion", as from 20th July 1990 - just a few months before the re-unification. Many people in East Germany were saying, if the D-Mark comes, we will stay, if the D-Mark doesn't come to us, we will go to the D-Mark, many people were at the time moving to the West. The D-Mark was the last German national institution, something people could still identify with, now we've got the Euro, the Teuero (too expensive).

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Very interesting Fritz,

 

Britain went through the same thing in 1971 when they change from the old £sd currency to the new Decimal currency

everything doubled in price overnight. Now they're talking of bringing out a new 5 pound note made of plastic.

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with Churchill on it :thumbsup:

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I remember the so-called decimalisation in 1971. The old coins, some Victorian, Edwardian, George V, George VI and Elizabeth, just disappeared, these were interesting to collect. Haven't heard of a plastic coin yet, must be a rumour. The Euro coins look ridiculous, compared to the older coins.

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