Germany 1915-D 5 pfennig KM-19
This specimen was lot 3043 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $60. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY: Kaiserreich, 5 pfennig, 1915-D, struck in iron, beautiful luster with light multicolored toning, PCGS graded MS66." This coin is from a type issued 1915-22 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D", shown here), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. Wartime shortages forced the regime to convert this denomination from copper-nickel (KM 11) to iron (more likely steel) as shown here. The highly corrodible alloy means choice survivors are few.
Recorded mintage: 2,021,000, a better date, plus 3,516,000 in copper-nickel (KM 11).
Specification: 2.51 g, iron or steel, 17.8 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-19, J-297.
- 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 Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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- 1915-F ½ mark
- 1915-J ½ mark
- 1915-A mark
- 1915-D mark
- 1915-F mark
- 1915-G mark
- 1915-J mark
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- Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1915-A 5 mark
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- Saxe-Meiningen 1915 3 mark, death of the duke
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- 1916-E pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1915
- return to coinage of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)