Germany 1873-A pfennig

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Künker sale 354, lot 6123

This specimen was lot 6123 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €340 (about US$473 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"REICHSKLEINMÜNZEN, 1 Pfennig 1873, A. R Vorzüglich. (Germany, one pfennig of 1873. Rare, extremely fine.)"

This coin is a copper pfennig from a type issued 1873-77, 1885-89 from the Berlin (mintmark "A", shown here), Hannover (mintmark "B", closed 1878), Frankfurt (mintmark "C", closed 1878), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E", moved to Muldenhutten in 1887), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G"), Darmstadt (mintmark "H", closed 1876) and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted for the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design. The one pfennig was struck until 1916. Mintages for 1873 were modest.

Recorded mintage: 184,430.

Specification: 2 g, copper, 17.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 1, J. 1.

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, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.

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