East Germany 1968 20 mark

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70603

This specimen was lot 70603 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2018), where it sold for $55. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY (EAST). 20 Mark, 1968. NGC MS-64. Struck to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Concavity to obverse of planchet allows for well defined bust. Well struck with slightly russet toning. From the Trebuchet Collection." This standard was used for several commemoratives issued 1966-90. A number of copper-nickel types were also issued for circulation.

Specification: 20.9 g, 0.800 fine silver, .534 troy oz ASW, edge lettered 20 MARK.

Recorded Mintage: 100,000 plus a few proofs.

Catalog reference: KM-21.

Source:

• 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]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The May 2018 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

Link to:

• 1966 10 mark, Karl Friedrich Schinkel
• 1966 20 mark, 250th anniversary of the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• 1967 20 mark, von Humboldt
• 1968-A pfennig
• East Germany 1968-A 5 pfennig struck in copper
• 1971 20 mark, Liebknecht-Luxemburg
• return to coins of Germany, East Germany
• Coins and currency dated 1968