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5 Mark Ernst Barlach
| Issuer | Staatliche Münze Berlin |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Currency | Mark (1948-1990) |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK A · 1988 5 MARK · (Translation: GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC A · 1988 5 MARK ·) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by East Germany to mark the centenary of Ernst Barlach's birth, this coin arrived at a politically awkward moment. Barlach had been declared a "degenerate artist" by the Nazi regime in the 1930s — his war memorial sculptures were removed, his work confiscated — and the GDR's rehabilitation of him as an antifascist cultural hero carried obvious ideological utility, however genuine the artistic admiration behind it.
The Berlin mint struck this in copper-nickel during the DDR's final years, when commemorative five-mark pieces were being issued at a pace that outstripped collector appetite.