Germany 1937-G 2 mark

Stack's Bowers September 2025 Collectors Choice Online Auction, lot 75315

This specimen was lot 75315 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2025), where it sold for $65. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Third Reich. 2 Mark, 1937-G. Karlsruhe Mint. PCGS MS-63." This specimen is a common date of a series struck 1936-39 during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany. It honored Paul Hindenburg, president of Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. For a race of Aryan supermen, the Nazis were remarkably unimaginative coin designers and this type is a blatant rip-off of the Polish ten zlotych of 1934-39.

Recorded mintage: 1,913,000 plus proofs, a slightly better date.

Specification: 8 g, 0.625 fine silver, 25 mm diameter, reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KM-93; J-366.

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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, September 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, including Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection and Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

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• 1937-A pfennig
• 1937-A 2 pfennig
• 1937-A 5 pfennig
• 1937-F 5 pfennig
• 1937-A 10 pfennig
• 1937-F 10 pfennig
• 1937-A 50 pfennig
• 1937-A 2 mark, Hindenburg
• 1937-A 5 mark, Hindenburg, with swastika
• 1938-B 2 mark, Hindenburg
• Coins and currency dated 1937
• Germany, Third Reich (1933-1945)