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10 Mark Johann Gutenberg
| Uitgever | State Mint of the German Democratic Republic (Münze der DDR) |
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| Jaar | 1968 |
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| Oriëntatie | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse features two large stylised calligraphic initials — a Gothic capital 'G' in the upper portion of the field and an inverted or mirrored 'G' (representing a printer's type slug, alluding to Gutenberg's movable type invention) in the lower portion — separated by the horizontal legend 'JOHANN GUTENBERG' in Roman capitals across the centre. The numerals '14' and '68' flank the upper initial, referencing the approximate dates of Gutenberg's printing activity (c. 1400–1468). A small cross (+) appears to the right of the lower initial, and the mint mark is incorporated into the design. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The 1968 date was deliberate: the GDR issued this coin to mark the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's death, a calculated piece of cultural politics at a moment when East Germany was aggressively claiming German intellectual heritage as its own. Positioning the inventor of movable-type printing as a socialist forefather required some ideological gymnastics, but the propaganda value of Gutenberg — democratizer of knowledge, enemy of ecclesiastical monopoly on literacy — was too convenient to ignore.
The .625 fineness is notably lower than the .800 silver used in most contemporary East German commemoratives, a reflection of hard-currency conservation measures that became increasingly strict through the late 1960s.