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  1. Can you tell me where you read about "Ulfliot the lawgiver" and the "King of Thule"?

    Brad already mentioned the Schön catalog. :ninja: And Ulfliot is mentioned on the 5 kr coin: "AlÞingi vas sett at raÞi Ulfliots ok allra landsmanna".

     

    The runes on the 2 kr piece translate (again according to Schön) to "The AlÞing was founded (or established) in 930."

     

    Christian

  2. For the most part Aldi's is great but some of the stuff is of "lesser" quality.

    Hehe, I live pretty much on the "Aldi Border" - we have Aldi Nord (North) and Aldi Süd (South) here, and outside Germany it's either the one or the other. In the US you have Aldi Süd and Trader Joe's from what I have seen ...

     

    Now how to get this back to coins, hmmm. Ah yes: Over here their biggest competitor in the low price market is Lidl ... and Lidl even sells coins. :ninja: Partly they are pretty expensive, some are in the "ugh" dept. (post-mint colorized coins), and some are OK.

     

    Christian

  3. There are nearly 8 of them to a US cent, and I wonder why they make them, because when they are given in change, they are mostly cast off.

    Probably for the same reason why low value coins are still around in the US and most euro countries. People don't really use them, and by and large they're a nuisance, but when you suggest to round totals, they start complaining ...

     

    Found a few €2 commems dated 2009 in circulation. Well, five so far AFAIR, and three different types.

     

    Christian

  4. Ah, I made a USPS worker happy ... Bought some stamps at a fairly busy P.O. but the guy sort of checked the coins I gave him. "That is a silver dime, Sir," he said. Right, it is, but a pretty darn worn one, I was tempted to reply. But I just said he could of course keep it. He also found a quarter featuring two locomotives and something that looks like a big nail to be quite interesting. "Hey, what is that?" I pointed at the top where it said UTAH. :ninja:

     

    Christian

  5. compared to the federal eagle of the "50 years of German television"- commemorative, this suffering federal eagle is quite a very attractive one, huh? :ninja:

    Well, if you have a television coin with a blank screen, why not have a "solid" eagle that cannot fly? ;) The eagle on the Philipp Melanchthon (1997) coin for example http://www.eurocollections.com/images/image.php?image=1828 was pretty bad too.

     

    And to be on-topic: Got a couple of Polish 2 zl commems ... except that I already had the ones from the "coins on coins" series. The others are neat additions to my collection. Too bad they have so many issues per year.

     

    Christian

  6. Those pesky German 2 €urocents show up in my change from time to time, but they are worth 3¢ so who is complaining?

    Everybody here who wants the 1 and 2 Cent pieces to be done away with. :ninja: They do have a neat edge, but apart from that they are just a nuisance. Unfortunately we still use them, unlike neighboring NL. Hmm, maybe I should take a couple with me to the US next time ...

     

    Christian

  7. And these a few days ago from a trade with Marvin (I never noticed till I took the pics that these have a medal allignment). I really like the Thuringen design on the lower left.

    Well, "medal" and "coin" alignment are American terms that would not make much sense in many other countries. Every German coin has this parallel alignment, and pretty much every euro coin regardless of the issuing country. Actually I don't think there are many European countries that use the inverse alignment. As for Asia and Africa, I would have to look that up, but I suspect not many have it.

     

    Yes, the Elisabeth von Thüringen (Elizabeth of Hungary) is a very nice design. Wilhelm Busch is OK too, especially the woodcut style background. The Saarland coin ... the theme design is fairly dull, and the federal eagle seems to suffer from an electric shock. :ninja:

     

    Christian

  8. Today I got four 50 euro bills from an ATM in Toledo. Crisp notes, and even better, four times the same short code, and -- four consecutive serial numbers! V28...706, V28...715, V28...724, V28...733. (The last digit is a checksum.) Too bad I may have to spend them soon, hehe.

     

    Christian

  9. Man if only I were rich. ;)

    Well, these days the gold coins sure cost more. Those €100 pieces (1/2 oz) are always issued at the price of gold (on a specified date shortly before the date of issue) plus a €25 supplement. The first one, from 2002, was €193 - those were the days ... :ninja:

     

    Last year's coin (Weimar) was issued at €263; this year's piece (Lübeck) will cost yesterday's gold price + €25. And we get to a whopping total of €285. Brrrrr.

     

    Christian

  10. Yes, quite interesting indeed. Most of those web.archive.org links do not work any more: "We're sorry, access to (...) has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt." But that may actually be good since the .com address is "dead" anyway. Stujoe has a sort of archived version of the old forum here however: http://www.thestujoecollection.net/index.php

     

    (And once in a while somebody still posts there. :ninja: )

     

    Christian

  11. There was a news item a couple of weeks ago about the German Government stopping Tom Cruise from filming because he is a member of a non-sanctioned religion, in this case, Scientology. But maybe the real reason was less his Scientology beliefs, and more his weirdness in general, you know, couch jumping, weird things said etc. :ninja:

    No, his being somewhat odd was not the primary problem. ;) Scientology was the problem. If you make a movie like Valkyrie, primarily about Stauffenberg, it does seem kind of strange that, of all actors in the (English) world, a leading member of such an organization plays somebody who wanted to do away with a totalitarian regime.

     

    That is also what Stauffenberg's son has said various times. And that is why some people in the government don't think it's a good idea that original locations such as the Bendlerblock should be used. But such locations have been used for various German/European movies about Stauffenberg, and frankly, I don't see why they should not shoot some scenes with that weird guy ;) there.

     

    Don't know who claims that the German Government stops anybody from making the movie, but that is a pretty obvious lie. After all, the German Government sponsors the movie - they get almost €5 million from the Filmförderfonds. That is almost 10 percent of the FFF's annual budget. But maybe such "minor details" are not that well known elsewhere.

     

    Christian

  12. Still today in Germany the Christian church maintains their privilege that together with the tax the "church tax" is automatically collected by the Government based on the concordat signed by Pius XII and the nazis.

    Actually the government does that for every religious community that is a public law organization (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts) and wants the government to collect it: the Roman Catholic Church, various Lutheran (evangelisch) and other Christian churches, but also Jewish communities. That tax system is a little odd indeed, but then again in other countries you can get married (with all the civil law impacts) by a priest, which I think is about as strange.

     

    (Slightly OT but I guess that in this thread that does not matter much any more. :ninja: )

     

    Christian

  13. And then, since I am a proud citizen of the Grossherzogtum Hessen Darmstadt, I had to get me at least one of our coins. ;)

    Oh, you are? Does that mean you're dead? :ninja:

     

    Actually I did something similar last year and earlier this year. Got three 200+ yr old coins, Scheidemünzen as well, from Jülich-Kleve-Berg and the Grand Duchy of Berg. One from Carl Theodor, one from Maximilian Joseph, one from Joachim Murat. Not exactly my main area of collecting, but I'm from Düsseldorf which used to be the capital of Berg. ;)

     

    Christian

  14. Here is another van Wien family which might sort of match. About a woman named Mathilde Ambrunn: "1905 heiratete sie Ferdinand van Wien, mit dem sie später in München lebte. 1938 wurde Ferdinand van Wien im KZ Dachau ermordet. Der Witwe gelang es 1939 in die USA zu emigrieren." http://www.gunnet.de/stephani/step_p67.htm

     

    Seems they were Jewish (at least what the nazis considered to be Jewish). Both "ene voorspoedige vaart" and "Gesegnet seist du vom Ewigen" could be references to the Old Testament or the Tanach.

     

    Christian

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