Germany 1929-J 3 mark KM-60

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1259

This specimen was lot 1259 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $211.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Weimar Republic, AR 3 mark, 1929-J, 200th anniversary of Gotthold Lessing, PCGS graded Proof 63, ex Don Erickson Collection." This type, issued 1929, was struck in some numbers in Berlin ("A"), Munich ("D"), Muldenhutten ("E"), Stuttgart ("F"), Karlsruhe ("G") and Hamburg ("J", shown here). It is among the more available of the Weimar commemoratives.

Recorded mintage: 33,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 15 g, 0.500 fine silver, 30 mm diameter, designed by Rudolf Bosselt.

Catalog reference: KM-60.

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 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Link to:

• 1929-F rentenpfennig
• 1929-A 3 mark, union of Waldeck and Prussia
• 1929-A 3 mark, 10th Anniversary of the Weimar Constitution
• 1929-E 3 mark, Meissen millennium
• 1929-A 5 mark, oak tree
• 1929-A 5 mark, Lessing bicentennial
• 1929-A 5 mark, Hindenburg
• 1929-D 5 mark, Hindenburg
• 1929-F 5 mark, Hindenburg
• 1929-E 5 mark, oak tree
• 1929-E 5 mark, Meissen millennium
• 1929-F 5 mark, Lessing bicentennial
• 1929-J 5 mark, Lessing bicentennial
• Coins and currency dated 1929
• return to coins of Germany, Weimar Republic (1918-1933)