| Description : The Porta Nigra, built around 180 A.D. as the town gate of the
Roman town of Augusta Treverorum, has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Trier since 1986 as the best preserved
Roman town gate north of the Alps. Due to financial constraints, the construction, which was begun under Emperor Marcus
Aurelius, was never finally completed. At the bottom of the motif is the name of the federal state "RHEINLAND-PFALZ"
(Rhineland‐Palatinate) and the country abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany). To the middle 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) and at the top of the motif the year of issue "2017". On the right are the
initials "CH" of the coin designer František Chochola. |
