PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
GREAT CULTURAL FIGURES SERIES - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)
SILVER TEN YUAN COIN CERTIFIED NGC PROOF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
OBV: NATIONAL EMBLEM; DATE BELOW.
REV: GOETHE RECLINING WITH BOOK IN LEFT HAND AND QUILL PEN IN RIGHT HAND (INSPIRED THE PAINTING GOETHE IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA BY TISCHBEIN), ABOVE TWO ANGELS BEARING FAUST'S SOUL UNTO HEAVEN; DENOMINATION RIGHT.
GEOTHE IS REGARDED AS THE PREEMINENT MASTER OF GERMAN MODERN LITERATURE. HIS WORKS SPAN DRAMA, POETRY, PROSE, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE, AND HE WAS A PROMINENT FIGURE OF GERMAN LITERATURE AS WELL AS BEING AN ICON OF THE LITERARY MOVEMENT CALLED WIEMAR CLASSICISM.
GOETHE WAS A POLYMATH, A PERSON WITH AMASSED KNOWLEDGE IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS OF STUDY. HE WAS A PICTORIAL ARTIST, BIOLOGIST AND THEORETICAL PHYSICIST, AND THE AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON THE SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF COLOR . HIS HYPOTHESES ON ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY AND HOMOLOGY GREATLY INFLUENCED DARWIN AND OTHER NATURALISTS.
HE KEENLY INFLUENCED THE FIELDS OF PHILOSOPHY, DRAMA, POETRY AND MUSIC FOR OVER A CENTURY. HIS MOST WELL-KNOWN WORK IS HIS TRAGIC TWO-PART PLAY FAUST, WHICH IS CONSIDERED THE GREATEST LONG POEM OF MODERN LITERATURE.
CONTAINS 27 GRAMS OF .925 FINE SILVER (.8029 OZ ASW)
39 MM DIAMETER
30,000 MINTAGE
