Description : The coin depicts Bremen Town Hall (built 1405‐1410,
rebuilt 1608‐1612) with the Roland statue in front of it, a World Heritage Site since 2004. Roland's shield bears
the double eagle from the imperial coat of arms which is a symbol of the long contested claim to imperial freedom. The statue,
(traced back to Hruotland (∼736‐778), Count of the Breton Mark in Charlemagne's Frankish Empire, knight and hero
of the Roland song) symbol of the city's rights, is sited facing Bremen Cathedral, but has been rotated by 90°
in this depiction. At the top to the left is 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), below the town hall the name of the
federal state "BREMEN" and at the very bottom the initials "BB" of the designer Bodo Broschat. The abbreviation "D" (for
Deutschland / Germany) is located in the upper right‐hand corner of the ring, the year of issue "2010" flanks the
6 o'clock star on both sides.
‐ ‐ Originally, only the Bremen town hall was to appear on the coin. |
