Hello, I don't what else to say ..

[Libelle]

I have joined this forum after it got recommended by Cobrastacker on Youtube. I watched his videos and decided this forum could be for me, to learn and to pass on the little knowledge I have. With the latter I'd like to start: I have survived on this planet more successfully than unsuccessful for 58 years, with plenty of harsh weathers. There were the hot summers of the 1970s where you couldn't run around in bare feet, because the tarmac was so hot, it would have burnt the soles of your feet and the winters, so cold that ice formed inside of the glass panes of the windows. Even inside the cars. I remember the hand break of my father's car being frozen and then the winter 1978/79 with tons of snow, we had seven metres of snow around our house. I survived that, yet nobody mentioned 'climate', oh no, that was mentioned once money could be made out of it. Give the chick/weather a different name and some folks can cash in, invent taxes ... for exhaling?.. or what else is the CO2 Tax? Anyway, I'm not an expert on climate, only as far as investments go, but because I have survived so many harsh weather fronts, I have become an expert in knowing when I get fooled, cheated and ripped off. 

One of the reasons why I started collecting again, but I don't just stack anything of everything. I stack what I can get for a reasonable price and I collect coins I like. My all-time favourite is the 'Silberadler', the old Deutsche Mark Coin with a face value of 5. The eagle looks a like a terrified chicken being plugged alive. 

And that's all I have to say, apart from: Thank you for letting me be here and: Don't let them take our cash away. 

Libelle  

 

[stefffana]

Welcome on forum and happy stacking!🤗

[flyingveepixie]

7 hours ago, Libelle said:

My all-time favourite is the 'Silberadler', the old Deutsche Mark Coin with a face value of 5. The eagle looks a like a terrified chicken being plugged alive. 

 Yes it does look rather like a chicken being plucked alive, doesn't it. I never considered that before now..😂   I got the one pictured below in my change one day many years ago when I was living in Germany and it was so unusual I kept it. It's the only one I ever came across in circulation so I must've just caught it as it was being withdrawn in favour of five mark notes.  Think I've got one of them somewhere too, must have a look...🤔

Welcome to the forum.

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by flyingveepixie

[silvergaga]

Hi Libelle, welcome to the forum, I too am a friend of cobrastacker,

I think I have a 5 mark coin that my grandfather took back from the war in 1916 when he was a gunner and didn't want to put his gas mask on because he wanted to see the Germans coming over the hill. He didn't know about mustard gas then as he was only 17 at the time, so he was blinded and got home from the war early and alive.

If I can find it I will photo it for you, I think it's an eagle on the back rather than a chicken though. All the best on our community here on TSF, great place to be.

Edited May 12, 2023 by silvergaga
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