Cute silver castle! 🏰

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Time for another one of my German silver marks !

And this time we got a cute little castle 🏰

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So what's the deal with this castle thingie?

Well, as you can see this 10 mark coin reads

800 JAHRE HAFEN UND HAMBURG

Which translates to

800 YEARS OF PORT AND HAMBURG

Minted in 1989, this is a commerorative piece for... the 800 years Port of Hamburg, duh πŸ˜…

Known as Germany's "Gateway to the World" this is the country's largest seaport by volume, located on the river Elbe in Hamburg, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea.

As for the castle thingie, it's based one the castle that appears on the civil flag of Hamburg

The civil flag shows a white castle with three towers on red background, which is used as a civil flag as a state flag for most purposes. The oldest seal with the castle is thought to date from 1241. The first flag featuring the current form was in the mid-16th century, although this was most probably a red field, a white escutcheon and red castle. After about 1623, the escutcheon began to be omitted, leaving a red castle on white or a white castle on red. It was only in 1751 that the white castle on red was decreed as the flag of Hamburg. source

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After doing some research here and there, I don't think the castle is supposed to be a specific castle, but more like a symbolism

All coat of arms show a castle with three towers. The middle tower shows a cross on top. It is believed that the so-called Marian stars on top of the two side-towers and the cross recalls the fact that Hamburg used to be an archbishopric.The towers and the walls with their pinnacles and the closed gate symbolized the determination of the town to defend itself source

Ok, enough with this side. Let's turn the coin around

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Nothing out the ordinary here, as always a unique imperial eagle design (by Klaus Luckey), denomination and minting date.

As for the edge...

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..it's engraved with the words "HAMBURG TOR ZUR WELT" for "Hamburg - the gate to the world", keeping the whole Hamburg thme.

Much like the rest 10 mark coins we have seen, this one weights 15.5 g and it's made of 0.625 silver.

All in all, a beautiful cute little coin from Germany :)

Stay tuned, there are a LOT more to see πŸ˜…

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Ohhh sexy man!

It's a nice coin and the name makes me think of hamburger. Can we eat it?

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Nice coin! That stack of silver is starting to really accumulate!

Oh yes, now it just needs to 10x and I'll retire πŸ˜‚

Unless you happen to find silver mine in your backyard it might take awhile then πŸ˜‚

It was waves... water, so I suppose it represents the sea. Gate to the World... cool!!!

I only now noticed the water πŸ˜‚

It's amazing how much detail can be found on this coin. It would have been cool if it was a hamburger on the coin πŸ”!

And the castle looks a lot like a sandcastle ⛱️

Ok, now I must eat a hamburger

It looks like a sandcastle a kid would make. Pretty cool

yep, its cute. Like you <3

Was it the real birthplace of the Hamburger?

The actual size of that castle is about all the property I can afford right now. Do you think you can crack open those doors so I can get in? I promise I'm a pretty good tenant, and never miss rent.

I can buy you one just for yourself πŸ˜‚

Geez, what do you take me for, a freeloader? I just want to live inside a 1 square inch apartment with reasonable rent, friend.

Looks like a toy castle!

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Lovely coin only wish I knew what was inside the castle lol.

I myself am very fond of owning similar things and looking at new designs, all these designs are very beautiful but the eagle design is the one I like the most.

I was about to be disappointed that this one didn't have an eagle 🀣

Lmao, now even your profile pic is broken πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Hive living playa, comes with the territory pioneering this shit 🀣

That's a beautiful castle coin.

Bags and buckets and 50 gallon drums β€” fill β€˜em up!!! Cool coins πŸ‘ŠπŸ˜Ž