20 Mark 85th Birthday of Ernst Thälmann

Features

Issuer	German Democratic Republic (Germany)
Ruling authority	Democratic Republic (1949-1990)
Type	Circulating commemorative coins
Year	1971
Value	20 Mark (20 DDM)
Currency	Mark (1948-1990)
Composition	Copper-nickel
Weight	15 g
Diameter	33 mm
Thickness	2.4 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	30 June 1990
Number	N# 10540
References	KM# 34 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes). , Schön# 33 Battenberg (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (3 volumes). , J# 1535 Kurt Jaeger, Michael Kurt Sonntag; 2021. Die deutschen Münzen seit 1871: mit Prägezahlen und Bewertungen = The German coins since 1871 (27th Edition). Battenberg, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany. , AKS# 24 Paul Arnold, Harald Küthmann, Dirk Steinhilber; 2022. Großer deutscher Münzkatalog von 1800 bis heute (37th Edition). Battenberg, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany.

Commemorative issue

85th Birthday of Ernst Thälmann

Obverse

Emblem of the GDR with denomination

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK
A
1971
20 MARK

Translation:
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
A
1971
20 MARK

Reverse

Ernst Thälmann, leader of the German Communist Party, who was personally executed on Hitler's orders in 1944

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ERNST THÄLMANN
1886-1944

Edge

Plain with incuse lettering

Lettering: 20 MARK * 20 MARK * 20 MARK * 20 MARK *

© Cyrillius

Mint

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See also

• Birth anniversary
• Politician

• 10 Mark (Ernst Thälmann)
• 20 Mark (100th Anniversary - Birth of Heinrich Mann)

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