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You are bidding on an extremely scarce 5 Deutsche Mark .625 Silver Coin.
The mintage was very limited and only 198,000 of the beautiful coins were minted.
These coins are internationally much sought after
. This coin was issued to commemorate the death of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ( 1788 – 1857). Eichendorff was born at Schloß Lubowitz near Ratibor in Upper Silesia. His parents were the Prussian officer Adolf Freiherr von Eichendorff and his wife, Karoline Freiin von Kloche, who came from an aristocratic Roman Catholic family.
He studied law in Halle (1805-1806) and Heidelberg (1807-1808). In 1808 he traveled through Europe, visiting Paris and Vienna. In 1810, he returned home to help his father run the family estate. The same year he met Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, and Heinrich von Kleist in Berlin. He finished his studies in Vienna in 1812. From 1813 to 1815 he fought in the Napoleonic Wars. From 1816, Eichendorff worked in various capacities in the administrative service of the Prussian state.
In 1821, Eichendorff became school inspector in Danzig, in 1824 Oberpräsidialrat in Königsberg. He moved with his family to Berlin in 1831, where he worked for several ministries, until he retired in 1844. Eichendorff died in Neiße, Upper Silesia, in 1857. Despite a career of rather mundane officialdom, Eichendorff is considered the greatest of the German Romantic lyric poets. His guiding poetic theme was that Man should find happiness in full absorption of the beauties and changing moods of Nature. He also wrote a history of German literature that was posthumously published. Eichendorff's poetry has been set by many composers, including Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss,Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Pfitzner, and Alexander Zemlinsky.
This coin is in extremely fine condition and most probably uncirculated condition with a catalogue value of R6,875 for UNC!
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