Anhalt 1896-A 20 mark

Heritage sale 3029, lot 30521

This specimen was lot 30521 in Heritage sale 3029 (New York, January 2014), where it sold for $2,702.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Anhalt-Dessau. Friedrich gold 20 Mark 1896-A, AU55 NGC. Very lightly toned with no obvious flaws- a rare one-year type." This type was struck 1896 only and is rare. It is listed in the SCWC under "Anhalt-Dessau" but as the other branches of Anhalt, Anhalt-Bernberg and Anhalt-Cothen, had gone extinct by 1863, the title on the coin is simply "HERZOG V. ANHALT."

Recorded mintage: 15,000 plus 200 proofs.

Specification: 7.96 g, 0.900 fine gold, .230 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: KM 26, Fr-3749.

Source:

• Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
• ^[1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Stuart Levine and Bruce Lorich, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3029, featuring Selections from the Eric P. Newman Collection, Part III, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.
• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• 1875 20 mark
• 1896-G 5 pfennig
• 1896-A 50 pfennig
• 1896-D mark
• 1896-F mark
• 1896-G mark
• 1896 2 mark
• 1896 5 mark
• 1896 10 mark
• Hesse 1896-A 20 mark
• Prussia 1896-A 20 mark
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1896-A 20 mark
• 1904 20 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1896
• return to coins of German States, Anhalt-Dessau