Germany 1890-A 20 pfennig
This specimen was lot 2600 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $510. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY: Kaiserreich, 20 pfennig, 1890-A, a superb example, PCGS graded MS65." This coin is an copper-nickel twenty pfennig from a type issued 1887-88 from the Berlin (mintmark "A", shown here), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. A previous type (KM 9), struck 1887-88, had a slightly different eagle. 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: 2,716,000, a common date.
Specification: 6.25 g, copper-nickel, 23.1 mm diameter, plain edge.
Catalog reference: KM-13, J-14.
- 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 Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.
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- 1888-A 20 pfennig
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- 1890-A 5 pfennig
- 1890-G 10 pfennig
- 1890-D 20 pfennig
- 1890-E 20 pfennig
- Baden 1890-G 10 mark
- Bavaria 1890-D 10 mark
- Hesse 1890-A 10 mark
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1890-A 10 mark
- Saxe-Meiningen 1890-D 10 mark
- Wurttemberg 1890-F 10 mark
- 1892-E 20 pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1890
- return to coins of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)