I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch Florins, also in coins. I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are those mint marks, from what cities? What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she is neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As most Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty rare even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels und mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How have they changed since 1870? By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking about real money. How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its name from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. Thomas Koch ----- Original Message ----- From: <TheAxt@aol.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > Greetings listers, > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > Ortsippenbuch. > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > be possible with you... > > Thanks, > > Mary Lynn Axtman > TheAxt@aol.com > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

About the Deutsche Mark - In 1871 the old Thaler system was abandoned in favor of the Mark System (100 Pfenning = 1 Mark). However, the Vereinsthaler continued to circulate as a legal tender 3 Mark coin and the double Thaler as a 6 Mark coin until 1908. In 1908 the Vereinsthaler was scrapped and replaced by the 3 Mark coin. Until well into the 1930's the German public continued to refer to the 3 Mark coin as a Thaler. The Weimar republic brought Germany the Rentenmark (100 Rentenpfennig = 1 Rentenmark) and starting in 1924 the Reichsmark (100 Reichspfennig = 1 Reichsmark). This denotation carried on through the Third Reich. In 1948 the Deutsche Mark (100 Pfennig = 1 Deutsche Mark) was coined. In addition to the "Kursmünzen" (money for general circulation) Germany also mints beautiful commemorative coins in 5 Mark (until 1986) and 10 Mark 1987 to present. I am not trying to sell anything here, folks, but if you would like to see some scans of these beautiful commemoratives go to this webpage: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cookkd&incl ude=0&since=-1&sort=8 This is a list of coins that I am currently auctioning on eBay. Click on the Item number and it will take you to the auction page where you can see the scan. Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Koch" <ferdinad@omnitelcom.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > I only have about 1.66 DM, all in coins. I have about 23 Dutch Florins, > also in coins. > I noticed some letters on my Deutsch coins - an F, a J, und a G. Are > those mint marks, from what cities? > What is the plant that is on the 10 pfennig und the 2 pfennig coins? > Who is the woman of the 50 pfennig coin? (I am pretty sure that she is > neither Queen Elizabeth, Lady Liberty, nor the Lady Helvetia.) > My 10 pfennig coins from 1950 look just like the one from 1991. As most > Americans know, it is pretty hard to get a 1950 penny in circulation these > days, because that would be a "wheat" penny, und those are getting harder > und harder to find. A pre-1964 half dollar would be a Franklin und also > mostly silver like a pre-1964 quarter or dime. Silver coins were pretty rare > even when I was a kid in the seventies, even rarer were Buffalo nickels und > mercury dimes. Does anybody know the history of Deutsch coin designs? How > have they changed since 1870? > By changing coin designs und silver content, the US government can > increase the money supply, und raise revenues without increasing taxes. > Perhaps a drop in a large bucket, but if 100 million Amerikan households > save an average of $10 worth of the new state quarters, that is a billion > dollars. A billion here und a billion there, next thing you are talking > about real money. > How about the history of the Deutschmark itself? Was it a Prussian > currency or Austrian or from the Empire? The Amerikan dollar gets its name > from the Spanish dollar, but I do not know how old the dollar is. > > Thomas Koch > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <TheAxt@aol.com> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:29 PM > Subject: [GERMAN-LIFE] anyone with leftover Deutschmarks...?? > > > > Greetings listers, > > > > Am wondering if any of you recent American visitors > > to Germany might have some unspent Deutschmark > > bills you would consider selling to another American. I > > am in need of about $30 in DM bills to combine with > > my unspent Deutschmarks from last fall's trip to > > Germany to purchase and provide postage costs > > to a cousin in Germany for an ancestral village > > Ortsippenbuch. > > > > Reply to me offline if this DM / dollar exchange might > > be possible with you... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mary Lynn Axtman > > TheAxt@aol.com > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > Complaints: > > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >