Germany 1876-C 10 pfennig
This specimen was lot 7077 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2022), where it sold for $100. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. 10 Pfennig, 1876-C. Frankfurt Mint. Wilhelm I. NGC MS-65. A lustrous Gem with a light dusting of almond tone." This coin is an copper-nickel ten pfennig from a type issued 1873-76, 1888-89 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Hannover (mintmark "B"), Frankfurt (mintmark "C", shown here), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G"), Darmstadt (mintmark "H") 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 Frankfurt mint was closed in 1878.
Recorded mintage: 13,214,086.
Specification: 4 g, copper-nickel, 21 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-4.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 NYINC Sale: World and Ancient Coins, featuring the Mark and Lottie Salton Collection and the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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- 1875-A 10 pfennig
- 1875-H 10 pfennig
- 1876-D 10 pfennig
- 1876-D 20 pfennig
- 1876-E 20 pfennig
- 1876-F 20 pfennig
- 1876-A 50 pfennig
- 1876-F 50 pfennig
- 1876-J mark
- Bavaria 1876-D 2 mark
- Bavaria 1876-D 5 mark
- Bavaria 1876-D 20 mark
- Hamburg 1876-J 2 mark
- Hesse 1876-H 5 mark
- Prussia 1876-A 5 mark
- Prussia 1876-B 5 mark
- Saxony 1876-E 5 mark
- Wurttemberg 1876-F 20 mark
- 1877-C 50 pfennig
- 1892-J 10 pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1876
- return to coins of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)