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5 Mark Sanssouci Palace of Potsdam
| Issuer | Staatsbank der DDR |
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| Year | 1986 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A frontal architectural view of Schloss Sanssouci, the Rococo summer palace of Frederick the Great in Potsdam, dominates the central field, rendered in careful relief with its characteristic colonnaded facade and central dome clearly articulated. The terraced vineyard steps leading up to the palace entrance are depicted in the middle ground, flanked by sculpted garden figures on either side. The legend 'SANSSOUCI' is inscribed in the upper field above the palace, while 'POTSDAM' appears in the lower field below the architectural motif. The engraver's initial 'R' is positioned at the very base of the design beneath 'POTSDAM'. The date 1748, commemorating the palace's construction, is referenced in the lettering records of this issue. |
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| Reverse lettering | SANSSOUCI POTSDAM 1748 R |
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Sanssouci was Frederick the Great's personal retreat, built against the wishes of his father Frederick William I and completed in 1747. The DDR's decision to commemorate it in 1986 was characteristically awkward — the East German state was celebrating the summer palace of an 18th-century Prussian militarist king it had otherwise spent decades ideologically distancing itself from. By the 1980s, the regime had quietly rehabilitated Frederick II as a usable national symbol, culminating in the return of his equestrian statue to Unter den Linden in 1980.