2023 Germany €20 Silver Coin Issue "Bertolt Brecht 125 Years"

• Issue Date: February 9
• Mint: Hamburg (J)
• Denomination: €20
• Quality: Proof/UNC
• Limit: 120,000/N/A
• Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver
• Diameter: 32.5 mm
• Weight: 18 grams
• Design: Katrin Pannicke,
• Box/Capsule: No/Proof only
• Certificate: Proof in printed folder
• Edge Lettering: "DAS SCHICKSAL DES MENSCHEN IST DER MENSCH" (MAN'S DESTINY IS MAN)

Additional Information

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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born in Germany in 1898 and died aged 58 in 1956. He was a poet, playwright and theatre director. Brecht created numerous plays and theatrical productions during his career, including Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (first produced in English, 1948; Der kaukasische Kreidekreis, 1949), and Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1941; Mother Courage and Her Children).

Brecht changed the rules of theatre, disrupting the sense of reality by distancing the actors and audiences from the events being portrayed, making things that should be familiar strange in order to make the audience think rather than simply accept, and using contradictions to create complex characters.

The reverse has the German eagle, the words “BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND”, the value and denomination, the letter “J” for the Hamburg Mint, the year 2023, and the twelve stars of Europe.