Germany 1906-E 10 pfennig
This specimen was lot 70823 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. 10 Pfennig, 1906-E. Muldenhutten Mint. Wilhelm II. PCGS PROOF-65. The only example of the date and mint in the PCGS census, this wonderful Gem displays with a light tiger pattern like toning." This coin is a copper-nickel ten pfennig from a type issued 1890-1916 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), 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. This is a somewhat scarce date. The ten pfennig was switched to iron in 1916 to save materials for the war effort.
Recorded mintage: 2,189,000.
Specification: 4 g, copper-nickel, 22 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-12; J-13.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
- [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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- 1905-E pfennig
- 1905-F 10 pfennig
- 1906-A 5 pfennig
- 1906-E ½ mark
- 1906-G ½ mark
- 1906-F mark
- Baden 1906-G 2 mark
- Baden 1906-G 5 mark
- Bavaria 1906-D 5 mark
- Bremen 1906-J 5 mark
- Bremen 1906-J 20 mark
- Hesse 1906-A 20 mark
- Lippe-Detmold 1906-A 2 mark
- Lubeck 1906-A 2 mark
- Prussia 1906-A 20 mark
- Saxony 1906-E 10 mark
- 1908-G 10 pfennig
- 1914-E 10 pfennig
- 1914-G 10 pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1906