Germany. €10 2015. 1,000th anniversary of the City of Leipzig.

Germany. €10 2015. 1,000th anniversary of the City of Leipzig.



Leipzig 1000 Years Leipzig was first documented in December 1015 in the chronicles of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg. The city where the peaceful revolution took place played a significant role in German reunification. The impressive Monday Demonstrations staged in the fall of 1989 started as a mass protest against the political conditions prevailing
at the time and heralded the end of the East German regime.

Mint: Staatliche Münzen Baden-Württemberg,
Stuttgart (F)
Artist: Anne Karen Hentschel, Bischofswiesen
Edge lettering: BÜRGERSINN • BÜRGERFLEISS •
BÜRGERSTOLZ