Germany 1881-A mark

Stephen Album sale 47, lot 1295

This specimen was lot 1295 in Stephen Album sale 47 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2023), where it sold for $540. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Kaiserreich, AR mark, 1881-A, a wonderful lustrous proof example! PCGS graded Proof 64." This coin is a silver mark from a type issued 1873-87 from the Berlin (mintmark "A", shown here), Hannover (mintmark "B"), Frankfurt (mintmark "C"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") 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.

Recorded mintage: 6,386,441, fairly common for the early type.

Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver.

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.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 47, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2023.

Link to:

• 1880-D mark
• 1880-G mark
• 1881-E mark
• Hamburg 1881-J 20 mark
• Reuss-Schleiz 1881-A 20 mark
• Prussia 1881-A 20 mark
• Saxony 1881-E 10 mark
• 1882-H mark
• Coins and currency dated 1881
• return to coins of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)