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100 Euros Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz
| Issuer | Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Thickness | 1.65 mm |
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| Obverse description | The German Federal Eagle displayed centrally in the field, with wings spread and head turned to the right, rendered in a bold heraldic style. A ring of twelve five-pointed stars encircles the eagle near the rim, referencing the European Union. The mint mark appears above the eagle at the top of the coin. In the lower portion of the field, the legend BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND is inscribed in two lines, followed by the date 2013 and the denomination 100 EURO. |
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| Reverse lettering | GARTENREICH DESSAU-WÖRLITZ UNESCO WELTERBE (Translation: Garden Realm Dessau-Wörlitz UNESCO World Heritage) |
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The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in Saxony-Anhalt was the first English-style landscape garden on the European continent, laid out from the 1760s onward by Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, who had toured Britain and returned genuinely convinced that Capability Brown's naturalistic principles could be transplanted to German soil. The estate survived the GDR period in a state of managed neglect and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, which directly prompted the German commemorative coin program to issue this piece thirteen years later.
Part of Germany's ongoing UNESCO series, struck at one of the five federal mints with a relatively modest issue ceiling typical of the gold denominations in this program.