| Description : The Prussian Manor, built between 1899 and 1904, initially
housed the First Chamber of the Prussian Parliament. From 1921 to 1933 the Prussian State Council met in the building, and
in 1935 the Prussian House Foundation, which was affiliated to the Reich Aviation Ministry, converted it into the House of
Aviation. After 1946 it was used by the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Since 2000, the building has served as the seat of
the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament), which was constituted in 1949. This 70th anniversary is the reason for the
commemorative coin. At the top of the motif is the year "2019", on the top left of the motif is the mint mark of the German
mint (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 on the top right the ligatured
initials "mo" of the coin designer Michael Otto. At the bottom of the motif is the inscription "BUNDESRAT" and below
it the country abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany). The designer's B‐design (which was not executed)
(see Image) depicted not only the building but also the position of the
Bundesrat and the voting weights of its 16 constituent federal states. |
