Danzig 1932 2 gulden
This specimen was lot 31283 in Heritage sale 3067 (Long Beach, September 2018), where it sold for $1,140. The catalog description[1] noted, "Danzig: Free City 2 Gulden 1932 MS64 NGC. The second from highest grade level for the type, this 2 Gulden exhibits a wonderful toned fishscale luster across the entire planchet, its colors a subdued blend of white gold and argent. Strongly struck (for this shallowly engraved type) and hardly touched since, a splendid representative of this popular series." This type, struck 1932 only, is the last of the denomination. It is rare, despite the large mintage, suggesting that most were melted. Danzig, long part of Prussia and then Germany, was briefly independent 1919-39. Annexed by the Nazis, it fell to Poland in 1945 and was renamed Gdansk.
Recorded mintage: 1,250,000.
Specification: 10 g, 0.500 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM 155.
- 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]Cristiano Bierrenbach, Warren Tucker and Sam Spiegel, 2018 September 6-11 Long Beach Expo World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction #3067, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2018.
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