Germany 1917-D pfennig

from the Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70829

This specimen was lot 70829 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $288. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Pfennig, 1917-D. Munich Mint. Wilhelm II. PCGS PROOF-64 Cameo. A fully lustrous, untoned, and pleasing example of the type, with mirrored fields and frosty raised devices." This coin is an aluminum one pfennig from a type issued 1916-1918 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 fairly common date.

Recorded mintage: 6,948,000.

Specification: 0.50 g, aluminum, 17.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-24.

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, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[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.

Link to:

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• 1917-A 10 pfennig
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• Coins and currency dated 1917