Germany 1875-J mark

Künker sale 354, lot 6124

This specimen was lot 6124 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €360 (about US$501 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"REICHSKLEINMÜNZEN, 1 Mark 1875, J. Sehr selten in dieser Erhaltung. Fast Stempelglanz. (Germany, one mark of 1875, very scarce in this quality, about uncirculated.)"

This coin is a silver mark from a type issued 1873-87 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), 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", shown here) 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 mark was struck until 1916. This date is scarce only in choice condition. The pre-war silver marks are not rare but the 1914-16 issues were almost completely hoarded, making them common today in all grades.

Recorded mintage: 7,728,000.

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.
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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