5 DM commemorative coins 1952 - 1979

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5 DM commemorative coins 1952-1979

• Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

  

  Issue limit:	200,000 coins
  Issue date:	September 1953
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1952
  Occasion:	Centenary
  Edge lettering:	Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (Unity and Justice and Freedom)
  Artist:	Karl Roth, Munich

• Friedrich von Schiller

  

  Issue limit:	200,000 coins
  Issue date:	May 1955
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1955
  Occasion:	150th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Seid einig,einig,einig. (Be united, united, united)
  Artist:	Prof. Alfons Feuerle, Schwäbisch Gmünd

• Ludwig Wilhelm Markgraf von Baden (Türkenlouis)

  

  Issue limit:	200,000 coins
  Issue date:	November 1955
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1955
  Occasion:	300th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Schild des Reiches (Shield of the Reich)
  Artist:	Karl Föll, Pforzheim

• Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

  

  Issue limit:	200,000 coins
  Issue date:	November 1957
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1957
  Occasion:	100th Anniversary of Death
  Edge lettering:	Grüss dich Deutschland aus Herzensgrund (Greetings Germany, from the bottom of my heart)
  Artist:	Karl Roth, Munich

• Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  

  Issue limit:	500,000 coins
  Issue date:	March 1966
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1964
  Occasion:	150th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Nur das macht glückselig was gut ist (Blissful happiness can only be achieved by what is good)
  Artist:	Prof. Robert Lippl, Munich

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  

  Issue limit:	2,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 75,000 coins)
  Issue date:	February 1967
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1966
  Occasion:	250th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	MAGNUM TOTIUS GERMANIAE DECUS
  Artist:	Ursula and Claus Homfeld, Bremen

• Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt

  

  Issue limit:	2,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 60,000 coins)
  Issue date:	December 1967
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1967
  Occasion:	200th birthday of Wilhelm von Humboldt
  Edge lettering:	Freiheit erhöht – Zwang erstickt unsere Kraft (Freedom increases while compulsion suffocates our strength)
  Artist:	Hermann zur Strassen, Frankfurt/M.

• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

  

  Issue limit:	4,082,500 coins (of which in mint gloss: 140,000 coins)
  Issue date:	October 1968
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1968
  Occasion:	150th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Einer für Alle – Alle für Einen (One for all – All for one)
  Artist:	Reinhart Heinsdorff, Lehen

• Johannes Gutenberg

  

  Issue limit:	3,030,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 100,000 coins)
  Issue date:	November 1968
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1968
  Occasion:	500th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Gesegnet sei, wer die Schrift erfand (Blessed be he who invented writing)
  Artist:	Doris Waschk-Balz, Hamburg

• Max von Pettenkofer

  

  Issue limit:	3,030,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 100,000 coins)
  Issue date:	November 1968
  Mint:	State Mint Munich (Staatliche Münze München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1968
  Occasion:	150th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Hygiene strebt, der übel Wurzel auszurotten (Hygiene aims to eradicate the evil root)
  Artist:	Professor Hans Karl Burgeff

• Theodor Fontane

  

  Issue limit:	3,070,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 170,000 coins)
  Issue date:	November 1969
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1969
  Occasion:	150th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Der Freie nur ist treu (Only a free man is loyal)
  Artist:	Heinrich Körner, Esslingen

• Gerhard Mercator

  

  Issue limit:	5,004,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 200,000 coins)
  Issue date:	July 1970
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1969
  Occasion:	375th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	TERRAE DESCRIPTIO AD USUM NAVIGATIUM
  Artist:	Doris Waschk-Balz, Hamburg

• Ludwig van Beethoven

  

  Issue limit:	5,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 200,000 coins)
  Issue date:	September 1970
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1969
  Occasion:	200th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Alle Menschen werden Brüder (Every man becomes a brother)
  Artist:	Siegmund Schütz, Berlin

• Foundation of the Empire

  

  Issue limit:	5,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 200,000 coins)
  Issue date:	November 1971
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1971
  Occasion:	100th anniversary
  Edge lettering:	Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (Unity and Justice and Freedom)
  Artist:	Prof. Robert Lippl, Munich

• Albrecht Dürer

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 200,000 coins)
  Issue date:	December 1972
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1971
  Occasion:	500th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Der aller edelst Sinn des Menschen ist Sehen (Sight is the noblest sense of man)
  Artist:	Prof. Fritz Nuß, Strümpfelbach

• Frankfurt National Assembly 1848 in the Paulskirche

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	December 1972
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1973
  Occasion:	125th anniversary
  Edge lettering:	Einigkeit, Recht, Freiheit (Unity, Justice, Freedom)
  Artist:	Claus and Ursula Homfeld, Bremen-Oberneuland

• Nicolaus Copernicus, 500th birthday

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	May 1973
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1973
  Occasion:	500th birthday
  Edge lettering:	IN MEDIO OMNIUM RESIDET SOL
  Artist:	Reinhart Heinsdorff

• Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	May 1974
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1974
  Occasion:	25th anniversary
  Edge lettering:	Die Menschenwürde ist unantastbar (Human dignity is inviolable)
  Artist:	Hubert A. Zimmermann, Stuttgart

• Immanuel Kant

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	December 1974
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1974
  Occasion:	250th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Achtung für's moralische Gesetz (Respect for the moral law)
  Artist:	Doris Waschk-Balz, Hamburg

• Friedrich Ebert

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	February 1975
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1975
  Occasion:	50th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Des Volkes Wohl ist meiner Arbeit Ziel (The people’s welfare is my work’s aim)
  Artist:	Reinhart Heinsdorff, Ottmaring

• European Year of the Preservation of Monuments 1975

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	October 1975
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1975
  Occasion:	European Year of the Preservation of Monuments 1975
  Edge lettering:	Zukunft für unsere Vergangenheit (Future for our past)
  Artist:	Ursula Schmidt-Malzahn, Hamburg

• Albert Schweitzer

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	December 1975
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1975
  Occasion:	100th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben (Reverence for Life)
  Artist:	Manfred Spang, Göppingen

• Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	August 1976
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1976
  Occasion:	300th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (The Adventures of Simplicissimus)
  Artist:	Reinhart Heinsdorff, Ottmaring

• Carl Friedrich Gauß

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 250,000 coins)
  Issue date:	April 1977
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1977
  Occasion:	200th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Pauca sed matura
  Artist:	Erich Ott, Munich

• Heinrich von Kleist

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 258,920 coins)
  Issue date:	October 1977
  Mint:	State Mint Karlsruhe (Staatliche Münze Karlsruhe)
  Mint mark:	G
  Year mark:	1977
  Occasion:	200th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Friede ist die Bedingung doch von allen Glück (Peace is the condition for all happiness)
  Artist:	Klaus-Jürgen Luckey, Hamburg

• Gustav Stresemann

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 259,120 coins)
  Issue date:	May 1978
  Mint:	Bavarian State Mint Munich (Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt München)
  Mint mark:	D
  Year mark:	1978
  Occasion:	100th birthday
  Edge lettering:	Durch Frieden und Verständigung Siegen (Victory through peace and understanding)
  Artist:	Reinhart Heinsdorff, Ottmaring

• Balthasar Neumann

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 259,120 coins)
  Issue date:	August 1978
  Mint:	State Mint Stuttgart (Staatliche Münze Stuttgart)
  Mint mark:	F
  Year mark:	1978
  Occasion:	225th anniversary of death
  Edge lettering:	Wallfahrtskirche Vierzehnheiligen 1743 - 1772 (Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers)
  Artist:	Hubert Klinkel, Zell über Würzburg

• German Archaeological Institute

  

  Issue limit:	8,000,000 coins (of which in mint gloss: 259,120 coins)
  Issue date:	April 1979
  Mint:	Hamburg Mint (Hamburgische Münze)
  Mint mark:	J
  Year mark:	1979
  Occasion:	150th anniversary of foundation
  Edge lettering:	MONUMENTIS AC LITTERIS
  Artist:	Karl Föll, Pforzheim