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2 Deutsche Mark Kurt Schumacher
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 1979-1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 1979 2 DEUTSCHE MARK |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Kurt Schumacher spent the Nazi years in concentration camps — Dachau among them — and emerged in 1945 to rebuild the SPD from near extinction, dying in office in 1952. His inclusion on this coin was politically pointed: the Federal Republic was, in part, asserting a democratic lineage that ran through resistance rather than collaboration.
The type ran across five mints simultaneously, producing an enormous combined mintage over its fourteen-year span. Proof sets from Hamburg and Munich in particular show significant variation in surface quality year to year.