1973 AD., Germany, Federal Republic, 500th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus commemorative, Hamburg mint, 5 Deutsche Mark, KM 136.
Germany, Federal Republic, 500th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus commemorative, engraver: Reinhart Heinsdorff, Hamburg mint ("J"), dated 1973 AD., issued 17.05.1973,
5 Deutsche Mark (29 mm / 11,05 g), 0,625 silver, 11,20 g theor. mint weight, mintage 8.000.000 , axes medal alignment ↑↑, plain, immerged lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND · / J / 19 - 73 / 5 DEUTSCHE MARK , issuer, date, value and mint mark around stylized eagle.
Rev.: NIKOLAUS KOPERNIKUS 1473 - 1543 * SPHÄRE DER FIXSTERNE * / SATVRN / JVPITER / MARS / ERDE / VENVS / MERKVR , Copernicus' vision of the central solar system, the six most central planets surrounding the radiate sun and the moon surrounding the earth.
Edge: plain with immerged inscription "IN MEDIO OMNIUM RESIDET SOL * * * " ("in the middle of all is the sun").
KM 136 ; J. 411 .
Year / Mint Mark / Mintage / Details
1973 J 7.750.000
1973 J 250.000 proof
German coins of the Federal Republic are produced at five different mints, coins from each of them can be identified by their mintmarks, A = Berlin, D = Munich, F = Stuttgart, G = Karlsruhe, J = Hamburg.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center. The publication of this model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been a part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. He was a polyglot and polymath, obtaining a doctorate in canon law and also practising as a physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat and economist. In 1517, he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and, in 1519, formulated a version of what later became known as Gresham's law.
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