Anhalt 1896-A 2 mark
This specimen was lot 4246 in Künker sale 294 (Osnabrück, Germany, July 2017), where it sold for €320 (about US$431 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"REICHSSILBERMÜNZEN, ANHALT, Friedrich I. 1871-1904. 2 Mark 1896. Sehr schön/vorzüglich. (Germany, unified silver coinage, duchy of Anhalt, Frederick I, 1871-1904, two mark of 1896. Very fine to extremely fine.)"
This type was struck 1896 only and is fairly scarce. 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: 50,000 + proofs.
Specification: 11.11 g, 0.900 fine silver, 28 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM 23, J. 20.
- [1]Künker Münzauktionen und Goldhandel, Katalog 294: Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871 | Russische Münzen und Medaillen, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
Link to:
- Anhalt 1876-A 2 mark
- Hesse 1895-A 2 mark
- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1895-A 2 mark
- 1896-G 5 pfennig
- 1896-A 50 pfennig
- 1896-D mark
- 1896-F mark
- 1896-G mark
- Hamburg 1896-J 2 mark
- Anhalt 1896 A 5 mark Dav-511
- Anhalt 1896-A 10 mark
- Anhalt 1896-A 20 mark
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1896-A 2 mark
- Wurttemberg 1896-F 2 mark
- 1904 2 mark
- Coins and currency dated 1896
- return to coins of Anhalt