- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | BB16-0405 |
| Description: | Grünes Gewölbe Dresden - Kirschkern mit 180 Köpfen, um 1590 |
| Country or State: | German Democratic Republic (DDR) |
| Year: | 24.06.1971 |
| Face Value: | 5 pf - East German pfennig |
| Series: | Treasures of the Green Vault, Dresden |
| Perforation: | comb13 |
| Printing: | Photogravure |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 41 x 41 mm |
| Emission: | 12,600,000 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel DD 1682 Stamp Number DD 1306 Yvert et Tellier DD 1370 Stanley Gibbons DD E1403 AFA number DD 1437 |
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The cherry stone carved with 185 human faces and heads was presented by the Imperial Counsellor and "Reichspfennigmeister" and later Lord Chamberlain Christoph von Loß (1545-1609) from Pillnitz near Dresden to Elector Christian I of Saxony as a gift in 1589. |
