10 Pfennig 1972 G

[VAB2013]

Jon and I were discussing in his earlier thread, we are paying with cash more often instead of our convenient debit cards! Yesterday in change I got this in place of a cent, it's the size of a nickel.

Don't see many foreign coins so I had to research this one...

Germany has four mints, this one was minted in Karlsruhe as signified by the G mint mark. It's brass plated steel and sticks to a magnet. When you flip this one over the other side is upside down.

Acetone did not get all the gunk off, but I guess you can't expect too much from a circulated brass and steel 1972

[jfines69]

That has made its' way around the world... Cool!!!

[makecents]

Cool find Viv!! I like the design.

[VAB2013]

Cool find Viv!! I like the design.

Thank you guys! Jon, I wonder if they tried to copy our wheat stalk? There was also a REALLY nice 1980 Lincoln that I was almost sure was Die 1, close but no tomato!

[mustbebob]

I spent 4 years in Germany and am pretty familiar with their currency. There are various version of the wheat stalks on the German coins and the Mark currency. The coins were used until the early 2000's when they adopted the Euro currency. I have about 1000 pfennig coins here. Want some more?

[VAB2013]

I spent 4 years and Germany and am pretty familiar with their currency. There are various version of the wheat stalks on the German coins and the Mark currency. The coins were used until the early 2000s when they adopted the Euro currency. I have about 1000 pfennig coins here. Want some more?

Thank you Bob for explaining the wheat stalks on German coins! Oh my, you have so many pfennig's! Thank you for offering to release some of those but since I don't really collect foreign coins I am happy to find the one I did just to see what one looks like! That's a long time to be in Germany and not spend your pfennig's on something

[GrumpyEd]

I wonder if they tried to copy our wheat stalk?

I sort of doubt it, just like our cents, a lot of coins have used wheat (probably representing "hey we got agriculture"), fierce birds (saying we're vigilant) etc..
Not sure if they used that exact thing before 1909 but I wouldn't doubt it, I think the exact same design is on some of their early 1900s bills.

[VAB2013]

I sort of doubt it, just like our cents, a lot of coins have used wheat (probably representing "hey we got agriculture"), fierce birds (saying we're vigilant) etc..
Not sure if they used that exact thing before 1909 but I wouldn't doubt it, I think the exact same design is on some of their early 1900s bills.

Oh okay, thank you Ed! Never thought of the reasoning behind why certain things are put on coins, but that makes sense!