French Mint Launches Fall of Berlin Wall 10€ Silver Coin

The French Mint, Monnaie de Paris, has launched a new 10 euro silver proof coin commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The wall stood for over 28 years separating East and West Berlin, symbolizing the separation created by the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, and their allies.

The morning of August 13, 1961, Berlin citizens awoke to find units of the East German Army and East Berlin police blockading access between East and West. Shortly, barbed wire fences were put up, and roads and buildings were demolished to insure vehicles did not have easy access between the allies’ western part of Berlin and the rest of the Soviet occupied zone. Read the rest of this entry »