5 Reichsmark Weimar Republic (1918-1933) Silver Eberhard I, Count ...

1927-F, Germany (Weimar). Silver 5 Mark “Tubingen University” Coin. NGC MS-61!

Mint Year: 1927 Mint Place: Stuttgart (F) Reference: KM-54 ($725 in UNC!). Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-61! Denomination: 5 Mark - 450th Anniversary fo the Tubingen University Diameter: 37mm Material: Silver Weight: 25gm

Obverse: Armored bust of Eberhard I “the Bearded” of Wurttemberg left. Mint initial (F), flanked by olive-sprays below. Legend: 450 JAHRE UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN (decorative deer´s horn) EBERHARD IM BART (decorative deer´s horn) Translated: 450 Years University of Tubingen / Eberhard "the Bearded"

Reverse:Heraldic eagle of the German Empire. Legend: DEUTSCHES REICH 1927 + FÜNF REICHSMARK +

Eberhard I of Württemberg (11 December 1445 – 24 February 1496). From 1459 until 1495 he was Count Eberhard V. From July 1495 he was the first Duke of Württemberg. He is also known as Eberhard im Bart (Eberhard the Bearded). In 1477 Eberhard, whose motto was attempto (“I dare”), founded the University of Tübingen. He ordered the expulsion of all Jews living in Württemberg. He invited the Brethren of the Common Life and the community of devotio moderna to his country and founded collegiate churches in Urach, Dettingen an der Erms, Herrenberg, Einsiedel near Tübingen and Tachenhausen. He took interest in reforms of the church and monasteries. Despite not being able to speak Latin he held education in high esteem and had a great number of Latin texts translated into German. Parts of his large library have been preserved. Finally on December 14, 1482, he achieved the re-unification of the two parts of Württemberg, Württemberg-Urach and Württemberg-Stuttgart, with the Treaty of Münsingen. He moved the capital to Stuttgart and ruled the re-united country. In the same year Pope Sixtus IV awarded him the Golden Rose. In 1492 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece, by Maximilian I, then King of Germany. Johannes Nauclerus, a humanist and historian, served at his court. Eberhard died at Tübingen in 1496.

Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (German: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, sometimes called the “Eberhardina Carolina”) is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. It is one of Germany’s most famous and oldest universities, internationally noted in medicine, natural sciences, and the humanities. In the area of German Studies (German: Germanistik) it has been ranked first among all German universities for many years, and is known as a centre for the study of theology and religion. Tübingen is one of five classical “university towns” in Germany; the other four being Marburg, Göttingen, Freiburg and Heidelberg. The university is associated with some Nobel laureates, especially in the fields of medicine and chemistry.

The University of Tübingen was founded in 1477 by Count Eberhard V (Eberhard im Bart, 1445–1496), later the first Duke of Württemberg, a civic and ecclesiastic reformer who established the school after becoming absorbed in the Renaissance revival of learning during his travels to Italy. Its first rector was Johannes Nauclerus.

Its present name was conferred on it in 1769 by Duke Karl Eugen who appended his first name to that of the founder (Karls being the possessive form of Karl). The university later became the principal university of the kingdom of Württemberg. Today, it is one of nine state universities funded by the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.