Soggi, that a real picture of you?
No, i havent forgotten the Austrian Münzen... The reason its not on the list is because they have been EXTREMELY helpful and sent me pictures and referred me to the numismatic representatives at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, as well as people AT the mint who were able to help!
The simple reason Wien is not on that list is that I have the contacts and information for them...
The German Münzen on the other hand, are more difficult...
Staatliche Münze Baden Württemberg have been the best, providing me with some PDF's and pictures of the current Stuttgart and Karlsruhe Münzen (tho the Stuttgart pics are useless, as its the new site they move to in 1967).
Berlin has obviously moved; they havent been able to provide me with their old address or pictures (anyone here live in Berlin, near the old Berlin Münze?)
Munich - have moved also. They used to be on Maximilian (?) Straße, but i need to get a number and confirmation of that! No pics!
Muldenhütten - Is closed. I DO have a location for it (Industriegebiet Muldenhütten, 09599 Freiberg), but again, no pics and no idea's!
Hamburg - Bei der Neuen Münze 19, D-22145 Hamburg. I can not confirm if this is the same location as -1943 when it was largely destroyed in an air raid. Again, no pictures!
ChKy: You may indeed ask...
The general focus is the Mints and Coins of the German Third Reich, 1933-1945, Coinage of the Reichskreditkassen, 1940-1941 and The Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945-1948. ATM, with pictures and bibliography excluded, its about 50-ish A4 pages. Needs a re-write in many sections, but a lot of the information is 'first-pass' (when i write papers, i start by getting all the info i want to include down on paper, with quotes and references and etc in there... Once im happy that i have everything i want, I go back through, read what i have and re-write it (second-pass) so that it reads as nice as possible. 'Third-pass' is basically formatting it nicely, adding pictures and captions, etc.).
Of course, the research has grown to a size where in its current form, its too large to be published in a normal academic journal, so Im not 100% sure what will happen there. BUT a friend of mine who is a coin dealer has offered to do a short print run of it for me if it doesnt get published anywhere. I kinda like that idea honestly; being able to have a 'proper' book copy of my work sitting in the Uni library and etc...
And who knows what will happen then! Krause might offer to publish it for me! hahahaha
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