Germany 1935-F 5 mark KM-83

Steve Album sale 51, lot 1037

This specimen was lot 1037 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $1,800. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Third Reich, AR 5 reichsmark, 1935-F, Potsdam Garrison Church, a wonderful proof quality example! PCGS graded Proof 64 DCAM, ex Joe Sedillot Collection." This type of 1934-35 makes no reference to the newly installed Nazi regime. Though the size of a half dollar, its higher fineness meant that it contained the same amount of silver as the larger five mark of the Weimar Republic such as the Goethe commemorative (Dav-974).

Recorded mintage: 2,177,000.

Specification: 13.88 g, 0.900 fine silver, 29 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-83, Y-85, J-357.

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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• return to coinage of Germany, Third Reich (1933-1945)