Germany 1903-G mark
This specimen was lot 2602 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $156. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY: Kaiserreich, AR mark, Karlsruhe, 1903-G, better date/mintmark, blast white luster, PCGS graded MS65." 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 tho the 1903-G is fourteen times the price of the 1915-A.
Recorded mintage: 614,000.
Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, 24 mm diameter, .160 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: KM-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, 1901-2000, 47th 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.
Link to:
- 1903-A mark
- 1903-D mark
- Baden 1903-G 5 mark Dav-535
- Saxe-Altenburg 1903-A 5 mark Dav-816
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1903-A 5 mark
- Saxony 1903-E 5 mark Dav-903
- Saxony 1903-E 10 mark
- Saxony 1903-E 20 mark
- Waldeck-Pyrmont 1903-A 5 mark
- Waldeck-Pyrmont 1903-A 20 mark
- Wurttemberg 1903-F 5 mark
- Wurttemberg 1903-F 10 mark
- 1904-A mark
- 1904-G mark
- Coins and currency dated 1903
- return to coins of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)