Cool Beard Bro!
Woot woot, just finished another silver purchase. Got lots of shit coming this time, including 7 pieces of 5 Deutsche marks (all different designs) and my first silver coins from Japan and Serbia 🥳
Speaking of Deutsche Marks, let me introduce you to one of my latest acquisitions! A 5 Deutsche mark minted in the 1970 in honor of Gerardus Mercator
Seller was kind enough to put it in a free case 💕
Let's take it out
So who is this fella with the cool beard? His name sounded a bit familiar but I couldn't remember why...
Turns out he is kind of a big deal :)
Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594)[d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts. source
Here's how his map actually looked like:
(public domain, via wikipedia)
Not a bad job! Remember that's 1569. No googlw maps back then to cheat 😂
Like the other Deutsche mark coins we have seen, we have a bad ass imperial eagle when we flip the coin
As for the edge, it comes engraved with the text
TERRAE DESCRIPTIO AD USUM NAVIGANTIUM
Since I am retarded when it comes to German, I figured to ask Chatgbt to translate and private more info. Here's what it had to say:
The German phrase "TERRAE DESCRIPTIO AD USUM NAVIGANTIUM" translates to "a description of the earth for the use of navigators." It refers to a type of map or atlas that is specifically designed to aid in navigation at sea. Such maps typically show coastlines, ocean currents, prevailing winds, and other information that is useful to sailors and navigators. They may also include information on the locations of ports, hazards to navigation, and other features that are important for safe navigation.
Thanks AI! Always a pleasure to chat with you 😂
As is the case with other 5 Deutsche marks, this piece is 11.2 g of 0.625 purity or exactly 7 g of silver.
And as always, a size comparison with a modern, failing euro coin
Yeah... The old eagle looks way better 🦅
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I am trying to grow a beard like that !
You lack the testosterone
They sell in the gym i will buy some for you too
By gym you mean your ballet classes? 😂
Yeap ballet classes hosted by the gym
Wut oil he used to grow that beard Fren...
Sailors or professors alike used to have that kind of cool long beard... That map still looks so nice tbh!
Yeah, it's incredible this map was made 500 years ago. No electricity, no nothing, such a different world
Indeed, Without these inventor's it was never possible where we stands now!
That's really a nice beard to have
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Old German Dude plan;
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Notice that Klause Schwab does not have a beard.
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I guess he doesn't like silver 😬
Very cool! Time to grow the beard again! ZZ top style! Cool coin though, the design is much better than Zeiss who looks liked Santa Clause. Great eagle of course, just awesome!
Yeah those eagles are pretty cool. Lots of em coming in the next few days
He looks like my ninth grade chemistry teacher….🤣
Can’t wait to see you coin from Japan.
The one you were in love with? 🤭
Shhhhh…. Don’t tell everyone
Amazing how accurate that map is considering the time. The amount of hard work and sweat that must’ve gone into estimating distances and then just drawing every bit of the map feels insane. One of these days I will grow a beard that huge haha. Interesting how the 2002 eagles feathers have more of a fine comb-like/seashell style while the 1969 emphasizes the feathers.
Heh, nice attention to details 😁 The euro piece feels way more lazy
Yeah, the old eagle was definitely better!
Wish my beard looked like that.
Wow, nice coin and it's weird to see such an old map. It's not the most accurate but without all the technology we have today, it must have been rough.
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Yeah, just imagine it took months to go from one continent to the other! If you made it alive that is 😂
You really love them German coins, oh that's the guy that made Africa look small and it clearly had nothing to do with making a useful map for marine navigation 🤣 when I heard that argument I died of laughter it's a PROJECTION and the people it was meant for are familiar with the distortions
Yeah, I like how each one has a different eagle. Purity could be higher but I usually pay a small % extra over spot cause they are common so it's ok!
It's nice to know the actually number of Grams... I can't help but feel that most of the World's Silver and Gold Coins have Weights and Face Values, that are meant to "Keep Us Confused"... That's what I want to change... I'd like to see World Standards when it comes to Silver and Gold Coins...
W are humans we like to put number tags to things😂
Maybe one day 10 g will be enough for a steak, a woman and a room for a night. That's another way I look at these numbers 😂
Hell, 10USD used to get that and midget strippers in Tijuana back in the day...or so I've been told.😀
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Whatever it costs today, just divide it by 100 and that will be what it will cost in the Very Near Future... But not in Fiat USD's... It will be in our new and improved currencies, backed by our new product line of "Circulating" Silver and Gold Coins...
A really Big old German Plan
He accomplished his mission and it deep down in the history
Now a big memory of coin is renounced
Great looking coin. Thanks for the quick history lesson. Like you I couldn't place my finger on the name at first. Waiting for those Japanese and Serbian coins. I bet they are going to be kick ass too.
Meh, they are ok, nothing fancy though 😞
I still can't wait to see em'.
he was flemish, in other words a swamp german not a true german but Germany must have been like: " ehhh close enough "
So , pleb Germans? 😂
no, pleb Germans are the few Germans left in Romania, pleb country -> pleb Germans :P. There have been native Germans living here for many hundreds of years but most of them left after the communists screwed them over. It's a whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_Saxons
So you are a pleb German?
nope, I would be in Germany if I were, not plebbing around in Eastern Europe :P. Just love history and stuff.
Its a nice looking coin. Unusual but collectible !
I always wonder how those maps where so accurate for their time. It's interesting how people navigated the world back before all this technology. We have lost a lot of skills over the years 😅. But hey we have cool coins.
Lmao
They had it right on the map! Awesome!
Thanks for showing your coins! I'm getting quite an education!
This guy's face takes me back to my old high school geography classes.
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