Bavaria 1904-D 2 mark
This specimen was lot 70684 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $132. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Bavaria. 2 Mark, 1904-D. Munich Mint. Otto. NGC MS-63+. Almost completely free of chatter with wide, sweeping, lustrous fields, the present coin easily deserves its 'plus' designation. Tinged slightly amber throughout, a color that blends smoothly with more impactful russet toning exhibited by the reverse." This is a common date of a common type struck in 1891-1908, 1912-1913. It superseded the gulden from before unification. The kingdom was abolished with the collapse of the Empire in 1918.
Recorded mintage: 2,320,238.
Specification: 11.11 g, 0.900 fine silver, .321 troy oz AGW, 28 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-913; J-45.
- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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