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50 Euros Lutherrose
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse description | At center, the German Federal Eagle — a stylized black eagle with spread wings and open talons — rendered in high relief against the coin field. A ring of twelve five-pointed stars encircles the eagle, referencing the European Union. The outer legend reads BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND along the upper arc, with the denomination 50 EURO and the date 2017 distributed along the lower arc. The mint mark letter appears to the right of the date. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this coin was part of a broader German federal program commemorating Luther's 1517 posting of the Ninety-Five Theses — an event whose historical authenticity, ironically, has been questioned by modern scholars, with some arguing the dramatic nailing to the Wittenberg church door was a later embellishment by Philip Melanchthon. Germany issued the coin as legal tender across all sixteen federal states, a politically deliberate gesture given the confessional geography that split the country along Protestant and Catholic lines for centuries following Luther's break with Rome.