Germany 1929-J 5 mark Dav-969
This specimen was lot 75140 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Weimar Republic. 5 Mark, 1929-J. Hamburg Mint. PCGS PROOF-62. Struck to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gotthold Lessing. A bright, gleaming proof issue possessing some faint friction in the fields consistent with the grade but overall quite appealing." 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. We have included it in our category of thalers based on its size, even tho it is only 0.500 fine.
Recorded mintage: 13,000 plus a few proofs.
Specification: 25 g, 0.500 fine silver, 37 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: J. 336. KM 61, Dav-969.
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- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns and Talers, Since 1800, 2nd Ed., London: Spink & Son, 1964.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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-J 3 mark, Lessing bicentennial
- 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
- Coins and currency dated 1929
- return to coins of Germany, Weimar Republic (1918-1933)