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| NUMISBRIEFS (COIN-AND-STAMP COVERS) FROM GERMANY, WHICH ARE COMMEMORATIVE SETS HIGHLY VALUED BY COLLECTORS FOR COMBINING POSTAL AND NUMISMATIC HISTORY. |
| TOP ITEM: PRAGER BOTSCHAFT (2009) |
| THIS NUMISBRIEF COMMEMORATES THE FAMOUS 1989 SPEECH BY HANS-DIETRICH GENSCHER AT THE GERMAN EMBASSY IN PRAGUE. |
| SIGNIFICANCE: IT MARKS THE "MOMENT OF FREEDOM" WHEN THOUSANDS OF EAST GERMAN REFUGEES WERE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL TO WEST GERMANY. |
| CONTENTS: IT FEATURES A COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL (OFTEN MISTAKENLY CALLED A COIN) AND A MATCHING POSTAGE STAMP ISSUED BY DEUTSCHE POST IN 2009. |
| QUOTE: THE TEXT "LIEBE LANDSLEUTE..." ("DEAR COMPATRIOTS...") REFERS TO THE OPENING WORDS OF GENSCHER'S HISTORICAL ANNOUNCEMENT. |
| BOTTOM ITEM: GERMAN CHANCELLORS (1994) |
| THIS COVER FEATURES TWO OF GERMANY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL POSTWAR LEADERS, WILLY BRANDT AND KONRAD ADENAUER. |
| COIN: IT CONTAINS A 2 DEUTSCHE MARK COIN. STARTING IN 1994, GERMANY ISSUED 2 DM COINS FEATURING PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT POLITICIANS, INCLUDING BRANDT. |
| STAMPS: THE SET INCLUDES STAMPS HONORING KONRAD ADENAUER AND WILLY BRANDT, POSTMARKED IN GREVENBROICH ON JUNE 4, 1994. |
| VALUE: WHILE STANDARD CIRCULATED 2 DM COINS HAVE A FACE VALUE, COLLECTOR VERSIONS IN THESE SETS CAN BE WORTH MORE, PARTICULARLY TO THOSE INTERESTED IN POLITICAL MEMORABILIA. |