Germany 1919-E 5 pfennig

Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC sale, lot 56639

This specimen was lot 56639 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2024), where it sold for $100. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Weimar Republic. 5 Pfennig, 1919-E. Muldenhutten Mint. NGC MS-64." Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted to the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design. Wartime shortages forced the regime to convert the coin from copper-nickel to iron in 1915-22. This and the matching steel ten pfennig were among the few prewar designs used after 1918.

Recorded mintage: 20,608,000.

Specification: 2.51 g, steel, 17.8 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-19.

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, January 2024 NYINC Auction, featuring the Emilio M Ortiz Collection and a Symphony of Russian Rarities, the Rothschild-Piatigorsky Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2023.

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• 1915-D 5 pfennig, struck in iron
• 1915-J 5 pfennig, iron
• 1917-D 5 pfennig
• 1919-D 5 pfennig, iron
• 1919-A 50 pfennig, aluminum
• 1919-E 50 pfennig, aluminum
• 1921-E 5 pfennig
• Coins and currency dated 1919
• return to Germany, Weimar Republic (1918-1933)