Germany 100 Euro Gold Coins 2004 City of Bamberg
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Commemorative 100 Euro Bamberg Gold Coin
The 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin was issued in 2004 by the German Federal Bank as a commemorative coin. It was minted in order to celebrate Bamberg, a German town whose historic city center was included in 1993 in the UNESCO world heritage site list. It means that this city center is of major importance from a cultural and a historic point of view, a fact that makes this coin a favorite one for collectors.
Gold is a precious metal chosen to commemorate major events and to lively preserve images that through gold coins are surely to be transmitted from generation to generation. Therefore, past cultures and history are transmitted through gold coins and one example of such coin is a 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin minted in 2004.
This German gold coin was manufactured from exactly a half ounce of pure gold; therefore its weight in gold is the equivalent of 15.55 grams. As with the majority of the German gold coins, starting with 2001 when the last D Mark coin was minted from gold to commemorate the replacement of the Deutsch Mark with the Euro currency, it has a purity of 99.90% gold. A 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin has a diameter of 28 mm.
It is a preferred gold coin to collectors and historians because on the obverse of a 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin minted in 2004 is illustrated the medieval city of Bamberg, a beautiful miniature image in gold that has even captured the two famous bridges. The inscriptions present on the German gold coin minted in 2004 are: "STADT BAMBERG", "UNESCO", and "WELTKULTURERBE".
The reverse of the 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin illustrates the famous German eagle, a traditional reverse which remained a heritage from the out of circulation German marks. On the reverse are also depicted the 12 stars of Europe. The inscriptions present are the minting authority "BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND", the denomination of "100 EURO", and the minting year "2004". The reverse also presents the letter "F", located under the left wing of the German eagle. This letter tells us that this 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin, illustrated on our website, was minted in Stuttgart.
In 2004, the only year in which the 100 Euro Bamberg gold coin was minted, there were produced a very limited number of 80,000 gold coins for each of the five mints placed in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, and Hamburg. This scarce mintage, which sums up a total of 400,000 gold coins, makes this gold coin very appealing to collectors.
The coin comes in the original box with certificate.
Mintage year: 2004
Issue date: 01.10.2004
Face value: 100 euro
Diameter: 28.00 mm
Weight: 15.55 g
Alloy: Gold
Quality: Proof
Mintage: 400,000 pc proof
Design: Prof. Ulrich Böhme
Mint: A,D,F,G,J - Verkaufsstelle für Sammlermünzen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Issue price: 191,00 Euro
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Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main. Its historic city center is a listed UNESCO world heritage site.
During the post-Roman centuries of Germanic migration and settlement, the region afterwards included in the Diocese of Bamberg was inhabited for the most part by Slavs. The town, first mentioned in 902, grew up by the castle (Babenberch) which gave its name to the Babenberg family. On their extinction it passed to the Saxon house. The area was Christianized chiefly by the monks of the Benedictine Fulda Abbey, and the land was under the spiritual authority of the Diocese of Würzburg.
In 1007, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II made Bamberg a family inheritance, the seat of a separate diocese. The emperor's purpose in this was to make the Diocese of Würzburg less unwieldy in size and to give Christianity a firmer footing in the districts of Franconia, east of Bamberg. In 1008, after long negotiations with the Bishops of Würzburg and Eichstätt, who were to cede portions of their dioceses, the boundaries of the new diocese were defined, and Pope John XVIII granted the papal confirmation in the same year. Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012. The church was enriched with gifts from the pope, and Henry had it dedicated in honor of him. In 1017 Henry also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg ("Mount St. Michael"), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy. The emperor and his wife Cunigunde gave large temporal possessions to the new diocese, and it received many privileges out of which grew the secular power of the bishop. Pope Benedict VIII during his visit to Bamberg (1020) placed the diocese in direct dependence on the Holy See. For a short time Bamberg was the centre of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry and Cunigunde were both buried in the cathedral.
From the middle of the 13th century onward the bishops were princes of the Empire and ruled Bamberg, overseeing the construction of monumental buildings. In 1248 and 1260 the see obtained large portions of the estates of the Counts of Meran, partly through purchase and partly through the appropriation of extinguished fiefs. The old Bishopric of Bamberg was composed of an unbroken territory extending from Schlüsselfeld in a northeasterly direction to the Franconian Forest, and possessed in addition estates in the Duchies of Carinthia and Salzburg, in the Nordgau (the present Upper Palatinate), in Thuringia, and on the Danube. By the changes resulting from the Reformation, the territory of this see was reduced nearly one half in extent. Since 1279 the Coat of arms of the city of Bamberg in form of a seal is known.
The witch trials of the 17th century claimed about one thousand victims in Bamberg, reaching a climax between 1626 and 1631, under the rule of Prince-Bishop Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim. The famous Drudenhaus (witch prison), built in 1627, is no longer standing today; however, detailed accounts of some cases, such as that of Johannes Junius, remain.
In 1647, the University of Bamberg was founded as Academia Bambergensis. Bambrzy (Ger. Posen Bambergers) – German Poles are descendants of settlers from the area near Bamberg, who settled in villages around Posen in the years 1719–1753. In 1759, the possessions and jurisdictions of the diocese situated in Austria were sold to that state. When the secularization of church lands took place (1802) the diocese covered 3,305 km2 (1,276 sq mi) and had a population of 207,000. Bamberg thus lost its independence in 1802, becoming part of Bavaria in 1803.
Bamberg was first connected to the German rail system in 1844, which has been an important part of its infrastructure ever since. After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units (see Bavarian Soviet Republic). The first republican constitution of Bavaria was passed in Bamberg, becoming known as the Bamberger Verfassung (Bamberg Constitution).
In February 1926 Bamberg served as the venue for the famous Bamberg Conference, convened by Adolf Hitler in his attempt to foster unity and to stifle dissent within the young NSDAP. Bamberg was chosen for its location in Upper Franconia, reasonably close to the residences of the members of the dissident northern Nazi faction but still within Bavaria.
In 1973, the town celebrated the 1000th anniversary of its founding.