This is a 5 deutche mark piece I briefly showed you a couple days ago. And it's also a piece I have been eye balling for a while but I couldn't find for the right price.
I think I still overpaid a little (8.5 euro) but I just had to have it:
Don't ask me why, but there's just something appealing about it. Maybe a fetish in the closet? Who knows!
I had no idea what or who this ugly mother fucker is but after checking numista, it turns out this is a commemorative coin minted in 1976 for the 300th Anniversary since the death of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. And I thought I had a big name 😂😂😂
So who is this fella and why is he ugly as fuck
Turns out he looks ok actually
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676)[2] was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus) and the accompanying Simplician Scriptures series.
As for the monster figure, it's from the cover of his best known novel "Simplicius Simplicissimus" inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648.
Honestly, I am not interested in literature that's 400 hundred year old so I won't bother what it's all about. So here's a link to wikipedia if you want to learn more about the novel. Quick interesting fact though, it is regarded as the first German adventure novel and the first German masterpiece!
As expected, we have a cool and unique design of an imperial eagle on the back
Silverwise, it's the same as the rest 5 Deutsche marks we have seen. 0.625 of
11.2 g.
And that's pretty much about it! Definitely one of my favorite designs from Germany for now!