Description : The coin depicts the church of St Michaelis in Hamburg,
popularly known as Michel, which was built between 1762‐1786 (and rebuilt between 1906‐1912) and is the
symbol of the Hanseatic city. The church is named after the archangel Michael, who is depicted (left) as a large bronze
statue above the main portal as the victor in the battle with Satan. Below is the name of the federal state "HAMBURG",
above to the right the German mint mark (A = Staatliche Münze Berlin in Berlin,
D = Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt in Munich, F = Staatliche Münzen
Baden‐Württemberg in Stuttgart, G = Staatliche Münzen Baden‐Württemberg in
Karlsruhe or J = Landesbetrieb Hamburgische Münze in Hamburg), in the middle on the right the logo "Œ" of
the designer Erich Ott. The name of the issuing country "BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND" (Federal States of Germany) is
arranged in a semicircle at the bottom of the ring and at the top the year "2008" is flanked on both sides
by six European stars.
‐ ‐ Originally, the St. Pauli landing piers were intended as a coin motif.
Some 600,000 coins were accidentally minted by the Stuttgart mint (mint mark "F") with the old value side, which was valid
from 2002 to 2006. |
