Silver 1972 F GERMANY Munich Summer Olympics Games "Schleife" UNC 10 MARK Coin

Description: OWN A PART OF WORLD & OLYMPIC HISTORYFOR SALE 1972 F "SCHLEIFE" (KNOT) DESIGNGERMAN OLYMPIC 10 MARK UNCIRCULATED MINT STATE COINSBEAUTIFUL MINT STATE COINS WITH THE EDGE LETTERING "FORTIVS CITIVS ALTIVS" ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN : STRONG AND BRAVE 2022 MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF THE MASSACRE OF ELEVEN INNOCENT ISREALI ATHLETES AT THE HANDS OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS DURING THE 1972 MUNICH GERMANY OLYMPICS. The Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the "Munich massacre". Just before dawn on 5 September, a group of eight members of the Palestinian Black September terrorist organization broke into the Olympic Village and took eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours.Late in the evening of 5 September that same day, the terrorists and their nine remaining hostages were transferred by helicopter to the military airport of Fürstenfeldbruck, ostensibly to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. The German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the numbers of their opposition and were thus undermanned. During a botched rescue attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting. The 5 remaining hostages were then shot and killed with a machine gun. All but three of the terrorists were killed as well. Although arrested and imprisoned pending trial, they were released by the West German government on 29 October 1972, in exchange for the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615. Two of those three were supposedly hunted down and assassinated later by the Mossad.[11] Jamal Al-Gashey, who is believed to be the sole survivor, is still living today in hiding in an unspecified African country with his wife and two children. Authentic Coin of:Germany 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games Commemorative 1972 D Proof Silver 10 Mark 32.5mm (15.50 grams) 0.625 Silver (0.3115 oz. ASW) Reference: KM# 131 BUNDES REPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 10 DEUTSCHE MARK, Eagle of Germany, mintmark at bottom. OLYMPISCHE SPIELE 1972 IN MÜNCHEN, Partial view of the Olympic rings in perspective with a fan-like background. Edge Lettering: FORTIVS CITIVS ALTIVS

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