Obviously it is the stupid question. Of course it is silver. But in modern world silver is not in circulation freely and often anymore. That is why it is of copper-nickel or even bronze alloys.
Thank you for your opinion. First, It is technical question. No neediness to express personal superiority here.
Second, the proposed source has nothing to do with the answer obviously. It is an image of an item for sale and any one can write anything in order to sale as quick as possible.
But the Trimm Thaler is not expected to be made of precious metal. At least its mass and size does not correspond a lot of silver content. It has antique finish. And the cover may be anything: change of surface of base metal or silver covered.
But the Trimm Thaler is not expected to be made of precious metal. At least its mass and size does not correspond a lot of silver content. It has antique finish. And the cover may be anything: change of surface of base metal or silver covered.
Looks like there is misunderstanding. The word in English is ‘thaler,’ in German is ‘taler.’ Numista is in English that is why the word is written correctly.
Looks like there is misunderstanding. The word in English is ‘thaler,’ in German is ‘taler.’ Numista is in English that is why the word is written correctly.
What is written on the thing counts, only. In Dutch it is: 'Daalder' but nobody will say that, once ‘Taler’ is on the thing. It is very easy to make simple things complicated.
I am not sure whether I understand the topic that is discussed, but some little input from my end:
- AOK is a quite large public health insurer here in Germany (Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse).
- Deutscher Sportbund means “German Sports Association”
- “Trimm” in German is comparable to “training”, a quite common word in the 70s, today not so much anymore, I think.
- The sentence “Trimm Trab ins Grüne” means something like “Exercise and Run into the Green”, so kind of motivation to exercise.
- Taler might be seen as synonym for “medal” here.
In my opinion, this “Trimm Taler” is a piece of marketing give-away that you received as reward
once you performed a specific time or amount of physical training, something that health insurers
are very interested in, as it keeps their costs lower, when their clients stay healthier.
On the back they put something that looked attractive in order to increase the motivation to be “awarded” with one of these medals.
For me, in my little opinion, no numismatic value whatsoever, as said just a marketing thing. You see these quite often on flea markets around here in the 50 Cents boxes…
Best wishes
in the end everything will be good - if it's not good, then it's not the end...
Thank you very much for your contribution to background of the issue. We still do not know the metal or alloy used to produce the thaler. Maybe the author of the second post contacted the seller and already got certificate, which indicates the metal alloy of the Trim thaler?
Regarding the word “thaler.” When you push people speaking English all over the world to switch from “thaler” to anything else you like, you may make changes. But for people use “thaler” in English for German coins, see for example a review in https://www.britannica.com/money/coin/Germany-and-central-Europe
Britannica there is no discussion here at all. It is so simple, as already was mentioned by yvon.
