Earlier this week I had an opportunity to look through a handful of between-the-wars Austrian coppers, the 1- and 2-groschen pieces dated 1925-38. As everybody here knows already, production of these little Austrian coppers was cut off by the Anschluss, and the Vienna mint—with its new “B” mintmark— began producing German coins instead.
These little Austrian coppers are common coins, of course, but being interested in them is an easy thing to do—they are one small but quite unmistakable step in that long descent into the nightmare that was World War II.
One coin in particular caught my eye, a 1930 1-groschen that had been converted by a counterstamp into a propaganda piece.....
One country wrestling with its neighbor—and itself—that, and the cataclysm to come, all captured in this one tiny copper coin.
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