April 23, 2024
GIANT WW1 GERMAN "BLACK SHAME" COIN Ultra Racist Rarity
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MOST RACIST COIN EVER MINTED War has never been a humane affair. The enemy is always made out to be a monster. In World War 1, this tendency took on extremely racist overtones, when Allied black troops (U.S. and French Colonial) invaded Germany's Rheinland. This mind-boggling German Notgeld coin (somewhat akin to an American Hard Times Token) is the epitome of such racist paranoia. It portrays a black Allied Soldier bayonetting a nude white woman (symbol of Germanic ethnic purity) as he grabs her by the hair. It would be hard to imagine a more brutally racist image. Because this type of alleged atrocity was happening in the Rhine land, the very heart and soul of Germanic culture, the coin's inscription reads: SCHWARZER SCMACH UND KULTURSCHANDE AM RHEIN (Black Shame and Cultural/Ethnic Scandal on the Rhine). The coin's reverse depicts a mighty German Imperial sword being broken asunder with the inscription DEUTSCHER NOT UND SCMACH TALER (German Hard Times and Shame Dollar). Struck in an unusual amalgam of brass and silver, the coin measures an enormous 40mm in diameter (larger than Crown or Silver Dollar size). It remains in incredibly well-preserved mint condition with narry a scratch, dent or ding. We have not been able to offer as fine an example of this very rare relic of wartime racism for a very long time. The last example
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