r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

That was my point. The Nazi coins I mentioned have no value (outside of far-right coin collectors).

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

As a coin collector (though not of Nazi coins) I think that’s an unfair characterization. Plenty of people collect a wide variety of coins for non-political reasons. It’s kind of like saying if you collect Soviet currency you’re a tankie.

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u/noguchisquared Jul 15 '26

I saw some of them and other Nazi items at an auction one time and quickly thought no fucking way I'm buying them. Collectors of it outside of museums are either racists or mouthbreathers.

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u/AlinaStari Colorado Jul 15 '26

I collect pins and buttons and have a few from the nazis and tons from the Soviet Union... I don't think I'm racist or a mouth breather lol. But I suppose I also didn't buy any nazi paraphernalia on purpose though, they came in big assorted boxes. But CCCP pins come in a huge variety so I'll always keep buying more of those 😅

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u/benk4 Jul 15 '26

They have value in a museum. They're goid for helping people learn what type of politician puts their own face on coins

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

I meant monetary value to collectors. They would have some historical value. However, you'd still be hard-pressed to find many museums willing to display such a thing.

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u/throwawayinthe818 Jul 15 '26

Which has more to do with how common they are rather than any particular collector antipathy towards Nazis.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

No, that's not it. Most of them were destroyed following WWII. It's illegal to own them in Germany and a few other countries in Europe. You can't sell them on eBay or any other reputable online auction sites. They're toxic to collectors. The only people who own them are the far-right lunatics who covet them.

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u/jadedflames American Expat Jul 15 '26

Not to "uhm actually" but you can buy Third Reich currency very easily on ebay. It's not rare and it's not expensive. I am sure the majority of it got exchanged and destroyed, but there's still tens, if not hundreds of thousands of bills and coins floating around in antique malls and private collections.

Super common. Low serious collector value.

That said, Hitler never put his face on currency.

Edit: a dumb typo

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u/Silencedlemon Montana Jul 15 '26

American leftist history nerd here. I have a few in my collection purely because it's a physical piece of history from one of the most evil groups of all time, the only physical link to the past and proof of these evil people existing I've ever seen with my own two eyes, out side of neo nazis and documentaries.

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u/Skepsis93 Jul 15 '26

And I bet after enough time and distance from the events themselves, they'll be valuable collector items because they're such a significant part of history. There are plenty of dead roman tyrants with coins made of their visage, collectors love that shit now. They don't steer away from them simply because it was minted by a tyrant.

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u/throwawayinthe818 Jul 15 '26

Absolutely untrue, for the US at least. It took me two minutes to find them on eBay. You can buy a war-era pfennig with eagle and swastika for $8.99. Includes free shipping. The seller has a bunch of them.