Germany 1893-F mark
This specimen was lot 70819 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $900. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1893-F. Stuttgart Mint. Wilhelm II. PCGS MS-66+. Pop: 1, 2 graded finer by PCGS. An attractive Mark with silky luster and speckled dark toning concentrated in the obverse peripheral protected areas. Overall a coin with great eye appeal, at a rarely seen grade." This coin is a silver one mark from a type issued 1891-1916 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden, later Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F", shown here), 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: 300,000, a better date.
Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, .160 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM-14; J-17.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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