AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN DER
DDR
1700 - 1975 (Translation: Academy of Sciences of the GDR)
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Leibniz quote and State emblem of the GDR
Reverse lettering
MAN
MUESSTE GLEICH
ANFANGS DAS WERK
SAMT DER WISSENSCHFT
AUF DEN NUTZEN RICHTEN.
WAERE DEMNACH
DER ZWECK
THEORIAM CUM PRAXI
ZU VEREINIGEN.
G.W. LEIBNIZ (Translation: From the very beginning, you had to direct the work of science together with the benefit. The purpose was therefore to unite theory and praxis. G.W. LEIBNIZ)