Hello, I’ve recently started collecting souvenir coins available at various tourist attractions/destinations, available via coin vending machines. I like this hobby and would like to know some more places (preferably in Germany) where I can find similar tokens.

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  3. Well-known sights in touristy places tend to have these. Possibly Cologne Cathedral, Brandenburg Gate, Schloss Neuschwanstein, etc.

  5. If I remember correctly I got one from the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, the altstadt in Potsdam, and I think the altstadt in Dresden but I’m not too sure.

  6. Especially in South Germany, there are many such tokens similar to the lower one at many destinations of hiking tours (mountain hut etc.). You attach them traditionally to your walking stick.

  7. I know 5 places in central Germany where you can get some of the bottom type.

    Schloss Berlepsch, Niedersachsen

    Rabenklippen, Bad Harzburg, Niedersachsen

    Rosstrappe, Thale, Sachsen-Anhalt

    Brocken, Sachsen-Anhalt

    Kyffhäuserdenkmal, Thüringen

    In Nordrhein Westfalen, I know that the Externsteine also have one of those machines.

    If you vistit Czechia by any chance, check out Karlstein/Karlstejn castle. They have great coins for visitors.

  10. You can fins the machines pretty much anywhere. Especially at tourist points. I do started collecting 0,-€ bank notes! That’s similar to you coins and it’s really fun! 🙂

  12. Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg recently got one of those machines, they have three different pictures, elephants, crocodile and walrus. St. Peter Ording also had one the last time I was there, outside a souvenir shop called Strandbazar.

  15. I think in Phänomenta Lüdenscheid, NRW and in Phänomenta Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are some. They look like the one on the bottom

  17. Ulm, at the entrance of Münster on the left, there is a little machine for personalized coins w different designs, pretty nice thing.

  22. I think most bigger museums will have coins for sale in their gift shop. As for the 5cent, it’s fairly common next or around the main attractions in a city. Sometimes you can find multiple

  25. At a lot of museums, specifically, Speyer and Sinsheim Tech Museums, have touristy coins to operate the models and diorama mobiles. There is even an attraction where you pay a robot a few Euros and he gives you the change. Its a hit with kids and we have a few of these coins floating around the house, in between couch cushions etc.

    In other attractions, I have seen these small vending machines that you crank a handle and mint your own coin. Its a rip off for what it is, but I guess if you collect them, it would be interesting.

    IF you are not from Europe, you might not be aware there are ‘collector’ €2 coins. Each member country is allowed to make a commemorative €2 coin each year and they are always pushed into distribution so anybody can find them. I have a few hundred that I have collected over the years. Often I see the rarer ones on eBay for some euros more than face value. If you can get a set, one from each mint, for any one issue, then there is some recognised value among collectors.

    Here is more detail: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/html/index.en.html

  26. Oh just friggin’ anywhere. Even my city’s archeology museum has one, and its not a big city or a very impressive museum.

    If you want to gather more of the coins people might recognize, there’s huge amusement park in the regiom called “Europa Park” in the region that draws visitors from all of Europe at least, they’ve got tons of them, different designs probably as well.

  27. You might like the Bundesländer+Bundesrat 2 euro coins too, they just circulate everywhere in Europe of course but they’re fun to find especially if you visited the place. By now I myself have 15 of 17. Every Bundesland coin has a famous monument of the federal state on it. It’s a lot of fun.

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