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10 Mark Käthe Kollwitz
| Issuer | State Mint of the German Democratic Republic (Staatliche Münze der DDR) |
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| Year | 1967 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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The GDR's decision to honor Kollwitz on a circulation-quality silver issue in 1967 was politically deliberate — she had died in 1945, her work long associated with working-class suffering and anti-war sentiment, making her an ideologically convenient figure for East German cultural appropriation despite the fact that she had never been a party member and had publicly mourned her son, killed in Flanders in 1914, in terms that owed more to grief than to Marxist critique.
The .800 fineness was standard for GDR commemoratives of this period, keeping silver content modest while maintaining the appearance of precious-metal issues.