Germany 1896-G mark
This specimen was lot 74888 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2025), where it sold for $408. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1896-G. Karlsruhe Mint. Wilhelm I. PCGS MS-64." This coin is a silver one mark from a type issued 1891-1916 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 pre-war silver marks are not rare but the 1914-16 issues were almost completely hoarded, making them common today in all grades. This one is priced quadruple the 1896-A from Berlin.
Recorded mintage: 243,000, a better date.
Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, 24 mm diameter.
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, May 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction: Ancient & World Coins, featuring selections from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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- 1896-G 5 pfennig
- 1896-A 50 pfennig
- 1896-D mark
- 1896-F mark
- Anhalt 1896-A 2 mark
- Anhalt 1896-A 5 mark
- Anhalt 1896-A 10 mark
- Anhalt 1896-A 20 mark
- Hamburg 1896-J 10 mark
- Hesse 1896-A 10 mark
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1896-A 20 mark
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1896-A 2 mark
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1896-A 20 mark
- Coins and currency dated 1896
- return to Germany, Empire (1871-1918)