2010 Germany €10 Silver Coin "Konrad Zuse"

• Mint: Karlsruhe (G)
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof/Uncirculated
• 200,000/1.6 million
• 92.5% Sterling Silver
• Diameter: 32.5 mm
• Weight: 18 grams
• Design: Heinz Hoyer
• Box/Capsule: No/Yes
• Certificate: No
• Image shows proof quality


• Edge Lettering: KONRAD ZUSE - VISIONÄR ZWISCHEN NULL UND EINS (Konrad Zuse - Visionary through zero and one)

Additional Information

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This issue marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of German engineer and computer pioneer, Konrad Zuse.

Zuse was the inventor of first working programmable computer, the Z3, in 1941, using the binary system and separation of storage and control. In 1945, Zuse describes Plankalkuel, the world's first higher-level programming language, containing many standard features of today's programming languages. FORTRAN came almost a decade later. Zuse also used Plankalkuel to design the world's first chess program. One year later, he founds the world's first computer start-up company: the Zuse-Ingenieurbüro Hopferau with venture capital raised through ETH Zürich and an IBM option on his patents.

The first programmable machine built by someone other than Zuse was Aiken's MARK I (US, 1944) which was still decimal and without separation of storage and control.