leon21 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Here's a small collection of coins dated between 1939-1945 I found in a box of mixed coins recently. Top row British coins. 2nd row Irish. Australian, Belgium ( German minted Occupation coin ), Italian, French, and German. Bottom row Swedish, and German. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 3, 2016 Author Share Posted June 3, 2016 Here's 3 more coins, though not WW2 dated, these are post war German coins from the 1950, 1958, and 1973. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 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). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 with Churchill on it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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