Germany 1875-A mark

Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 56610

This specimen was lot 56610 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $60. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1875-A. Berlin Mint. Wilhelm I. PCGS MS-65." This type was struck 1873-87 at nine mints. This issue shares "most common date" status with 1874-A, 1874-D, 1875-G and 1876-A. Mintages dwindled thereafter as Germany moved to the gold standard and the old pre-unification coinage was melted down.

Recorded mintage: 30,340,307.

Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, 24 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-7; J-9.

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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

Link to:

• 1874-D mark
• 1874-G mark
• 1875-C pfennig
• 1875-F pfennig
• 1875-B 2 pfennig
• 1875-E 5 pfennig
• 1875-A 10 pfennig
• 1875-D 50 pfennig
• 1875-H 50 pfennig
• 1875-J 50 pfennig
• 1875-B mark
• 1875-C mark
• 1875-D mark
• 1875-F mark
• 1875-J mark
• Bavaria 1875-D 5 mark
• Hamburg 1875-J 5 mark
• Wurttemberg 1875-F 5 mark
• Hamburg 1875-J 10 mark
• Saxony 1875-E 10 mark
• Anhalt 1875-A 20 mark
• Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1875-A 20 mark
• Prussia 1875-A 20 mark
• Reuss 1875-B 20 mark
• 1876-F 50 pfennig
• 1876-J mark
• Coins and currency dated 1875
• return to coinage of the Germany, Empire (1871-1918)