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Part of Germany's ongoing "Märchen" (fairy tale) commemorative series, this issue marks the 200th anniversary of the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen, first published in 1812. The series drew considerable attention for its unusual polymer ring construction in silver versions, though this copper-nickel circulation strike lacks that feature. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected and codified these stories not as children's entertainment but as an exercise in German linguistic and cultural nationalism — the tales were partly a political project during the Napoleonic occupation.