Germany 1939-G pfennig

Steve Album Auction 55, lot 2888

This specimen was lot 2888 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $65. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Third Reich, AE reichspfennig, 1939-G, a superb lustrous example! PCGS graded MS65 RB." This specimen is a common date of a series struck 1936-40 during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany. It was minted at Berlin ("A"), Vienna ("B"), Munich ("D"), Muldenhutten ("E"), Stuttgart ("F"), Karlsruhe ("G", shown here), and Hamburg ("J"). For a race of Aryan supermen, the Nazis were remarkably unimaginative coin designers and this type is quite dull. It was replaced by an even more boring zinc issue (KM 97) 1940-45.

Recorded mintage: 12,250,000.

Specification: 2.01 g, bronze, 17.43 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-89, J-361.

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 Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

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• 1939-G mark
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• 1939-F 2 mark
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• Coins and currency dated 1939
• return to coinage of the Germany, Third Reich (1933-1945)