Germany 1925-A 5 pfennig

Steve Album sale 51, lot 1020

This specimen was lot 1020 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $228. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Weimar Republic, 5 reichspfennig, 1925-A, a superb proof quality example! PCGS graded Proof 65 DCAM." This type was type struck 1924-36 in the aftermath of defeat and hyperinflation in World War One. This denomination superseded the five rentenpfennig (KM 11) struck 1923-24. The weight, composition and diameter was the same for both types.

Recorded mintage: 29,032,000, a common date.

Specification: 2.5 g, aluminum bronze, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-39, J-316, AKS-49.

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]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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• 1924-A 2 rentenpfennig
• 1924-E 5 rentenpfennig
• 1924-F 5 rentenpfennig
• 1924-A 50 rentenpfennig
• 1924-A 50 reichsfennig
• 1924-G reichsmark
• 1924-J reichsmark
• 1924-A 3 mark
• 1925-A rentenpfennig
• 1925-E 10 pfennig
• 1925-E 50 pfennig
• 1925-A mark
• 1925-A 2 mark
• 1925-A 3 mark, Rhineland millennium
• 1925-D 3 mark, Rhineland millennium
• 1925-A 5 mark, Rhineland millennium
• Coins and currency dated 1925
• return to coinage of Germany, Weimar Republic (1918-1933)