2012 AD., Germany, Grimm's fairy tales series, Grimm Brothers commemorative, Stuttgart mint, 10 Euro, KM 310.

Germany, Federal Republic, Grimm's fairy tales series, Grimm Brothers commemorative, engraver: Christian Höpfner, Stuttgart mint ("F"), 2012 AD., issue date: 14. June 2012,
10 Euro (32,5 mm / 14,26 g), copper-nickel (CuNi25), 14,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.488.000 (?) , medal alignment ↑↑, plain, incuse lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND / F / 10 EURO 2012 , date and value below German national emblem eagle, 12 stars of Europe in circle around, mint mark "F" above eagle´s head.
Rev.: 200 JAHRE / GRIMMS MÄRCHEN / ChH , conjoined portraits of the Grimm brothers facing left (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1843, from a drawing by their younger brother Ludwig Emil Grimm), engraver´s initials in right field.
Edge: plain with incuse inscription "*UND WENN SIE NICHT GESTORBEN SIND ..." ("and if they did not die ..." - a famous text fragment from the end of many fairy tales).
KM 310 .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2012 / F / 1.488.000 (?)
(plus a similar proof issue made of 0.625 silver)

German coins 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.

The Brothers Grimm (German: Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" (Aschenputtel), "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen), and "Snow White" (Schneewittchen). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.

The brothers spent their formative years first in the German town of Hanau. Their father's death in 1796, (when Jacob was eleven and Wilhelm ten), caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years. They both attended the University of Marburg and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a lifelong dedication to collecting German folk tales.

The rise of romanticism in the 19th century revived interest in traditional folk stories, and represented a pure form of national literature and culture to the brothers. With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, the brothers established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies. Between 1812 and 1857 their first collection was revised and published many times, and grew from 86 stories to more than 200. In addition to writing and modifying folk tales, the brothers wrote collections of well-respected German and Scandinavian mythologies and in 1808 began writing a definitive German dictionary (Deutsches Wörterbuch), that remained incomplete in their lifetime.

The popularity of the Grimms' collected folk tales endured well beyond their lifetimes. The tales are available in more than 100 translations and have been adapted by filmmakers including Lotte Reiniger, and Walt Disney, with films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty. In the mid-20th century the tales were used as propaganda by the Third Reich; later in the 20th century psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim reaffirmed the value of the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in the original versions of some of the tales that were sanitized.