Germany 1896-G 5 pfennig

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Künker sale 354, lot 6127

This specimen was lot 6127 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €5,500 (about US$7,654 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"REICHSKLEINMÜNZEN, 5 Pfennig 1896, G. Von großer Seltenheit. Fast sehr schön. (Germany, five pfennig of 1896, very rare, about very fine.)"

This coin is a copper-nickel five pfennig from a type issued 1890-1915 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G", shown here) 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 one mark was struck until 1916. This is the key date. The denomination was converted to iron in 1915 and it is likely many of the older coins were melted for the war effort.

Recorded mintage: 1,227,000 for 1895-97 (nearly all 1897).

Specification: 2.5 g, copper-nickel, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 11, J. 12.

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]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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