Germany 1932-G 50 pfennig

Künker sale 354, lot 6615

This specimen was lot 6615 in Künker sale 354 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €1,000 (about US$1,392 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"WEIMARER REPUBLIK. 50 Reichspfennig 1932, G. RR Sehr schön. Mit Expertise von Erich Paproth. (Germany, Weimar Republic, fifty pfennig of 1932. Very rare, very fine, expertized by Erich Paproth.)"

This product of the Karlsruhe mint is a rare date of an otherwise common type struck 1927-38.

Recorded mintage: 96,000, the key date.

Specification: 3.5 g, nickel, 20 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 49, J. 324.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• ^[1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 354: Munzen und Medaillen aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit u. a. Braunschweig-Luneburg. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.

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