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2 Euro (Warsaw Genuflection)
Name:
2 Euro (Warsaw Genuflection)
Country: Germany, Federal Republic
Issue on: 2020
Last Issue: 2020
Distribution: Circulating Commemorative
Mint: Baden-Wurttemberg State Mint (Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg), Karlsruhe, Germany (G Mint Mark)
Composition: Bimetallic
Composition details: ring: 75% copper, 25% nickel, core: 75% copper, 20% zinc 5% nickel
Face value: 2
Country: Germany, Federal Republic
Issue on: 2020
Last Issue: 2020
Distribution: Circulating Commemorative
Mint: Baden-Wurttemberg State Mint (Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg), Karlsruhe, Germany (G Mint Mark)
Composition: Bimetallic
Composition details: ring: 75% copper, 25% nickel, core: 75% copper, 20% zinc 5% nickel
Face value: 2
Currency:
€ - Euro
Diameter (millimeters): 25.75
Thickness (millimeters): 2.00
Weight (grams): 8.00
Edge: Lettered-Signs-Numbers (reeded)
Mintage: 30000000
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑O↑
Rim: Raised. Not decorated. Both sides
Shape: Circular
Description:
Diameter (millimeters): 25.75
Thickness (millimeters): 2.00
Weight (grams): 8.00
Edge: Lettered-Signs-Numbers (reeded)
Mintage: 30000000
Orientation: Medal alignment ↑O↑
Rim: Raised. Not decorated. Both sides
Shape: Circular
Description:
Designed by artist Bodo Broschat, the coin shows the moment in which German Chancellor then kneels as a gesture of humility in front of the monument to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. The composition is illustrated in reference to the 1943 ghetto uprising, considered the most famous attempt at Jewish resistance against the Germans. A 7-arm candlestick, one of the oldest symbols of Judaism, presides over the scene. About this act Willy Brandt would later write in his memoirs: "On the edge of the abyss of German history and under the weight of the millions killed, I did what men do when words are missing."
