A Visionary Between Zeroes and Ones (10 Euro, 2010)

What's up plebs!

I come to you bearing once again a silver commemorative coin from Germany, and this one has a pretty interesting design !

So clearly this coin is dedicated to someone called Konrad Zuse whom I have never heard before. But if I was to take a guess I'd say he is a mathematician or maybe a cryptographer?

Well close enough! After checking up on him I felt ashamed for my knowledge of history. Turns out he was quite a big thing. He is regarded by many after all as the father of modern computers!

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (German: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer. source

I actually halted writing this post for over an hour reading up on his life, Konrad did work on some really interesting projects from his early life to his death. I highly suggest you to check up on him.

Btw, the z1, z2 codes etc etc left and right on the coin are the computers he worked on. Here's a replica photo of Z1 his first computer:

source

Old computers just look so bad ass 😍

There are also some punched cards on the top and there is some short of binary message in the middle of the coin that I am too dumb to read. Maybe one of our hive geniuses like @dalz or @themarkymark can help? Fuck it, I'll even tag @blocktrades for the lulz. Here's a close up:

First one to decipher earns a virtual hug from me 🫂🤗

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Ok, let's move on to the other side of the coin

As always, a unique design of the angry imperial chicken eagle. No surprises here. Germans love their chickens !

We also have the minting date (2010) and the denomination, 10 euro. Basic stuff.

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And finally the edge

It reads

KONRAD ZUSE - VISIONÄR ZWISCHEN NULL UND EINS

For

KONRAD ZUSE - VISIONARY BETWEEN ZERO AND ONE

Considering his work on computers, I'd say it's pretty self explanatory:)

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And now let's talk silver! Usually the German coins I show you are 15.5 g of 0.625 purity. But the ones minted during the Euro era follow a different recipe.

Specifically, we have 18 g of 0.925 purity or 16.65 g of pure silver.

Now, that's much juicer :D

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Ok friends, this concludes today's post.

This coin definitely stands up from most other German coins I have featured in the past and it's easily one of my favorites. If you are a computer geek I guess it is a must have!

As always, see you soon with more shiny!

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