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10 Deutsche Mark Heinrich Heine
| Issuer | Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Deutsche Mark (1948-2001) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1997 A - Proof - 152,272 1997 D - - 2,990,000 1997 D - Proof - 152,272 1997 F - Proof - 152,272 1997 G - Proof - 152,272 1997 J - Proof - 152,272 |
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The 1997 Heine commemorative was itself an act of delayed reckoning. Heine died in 1856, but proposals to honor him in Germany were blocked for decades — first by antisitic opposition in the Wilhelmine period, then by the Nazis, who burned his books in 1933. A statue proposed for Düsseldorf, his birthplace, was rejected so many times in the late 19th century that it was eventually accepted by New York's Bronx borough instead.
The 1997 issue marked the 200th anniversary of his birth and was struck in the lower-.625 fine silver alloy Germany adopted for its commemorative 10-Mark program from 1979 onward — a deliberate cost-control measure that kept face value credible without committing fine silver reserves.