Description : The coin shows the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin facing the
street but without the equestrian statue of the Great Elector. The palace was extended between 1701‐1713 in the late
baroque style by Johann Friedrich Eosander Göthe. The dome of the palace is dominated by a sculpture of Fortuna, the
goddess of fate, which is a 4.50 m high replica of the Baroque original and was made of gilded copper plate by Richard
Scheibe in 1954, the original being destroyed in the war. In the foreground on top of the two guard houses are marble
replicas of an ancient bronze statue known as the Borghesian fencer dating from the 3rd century BC,
probably made by Agasias (son of Dositheos) from Ephesus around 100 BC. The year of issue "2018" is shown at the top
left, the country abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany) top right, the federal state name "BERLIN" is at the bottom
and below it 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). The logo of the coin designer Bodo Broschat is located under the left
fencing statue.
‐ ‐ Originally the Reichstag building was to be depicted on the coin. |
