Hamburg 1875-J 5 mark

formerly in the Mountain Groan Collection

This type was struck in Hamburg 1875-76 and 1888. Hamburg, on the North Sea, was one of three imperial free cities permitted a continued existence under the Empire of 1871; Bremen and Lubeck were the others. She struck silver two, three and five mark and gold ten and twenty mark until that Empire's collapse in 1918. This type is readily available in worn condition but expensive in high grade. The Hamburg mint is still in operation, striking coins for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Recorded mintage: 286,000.

Specification: 27.77 g, 0.900 fine silver, .803 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM 287, Dav-658.

Source:

• 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.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

Link to:

• Germany 1874-F 10 pfennig
• 1875-C pfennig
• 1875-F pfennig
• 1875-B 2 pfennig
• 1875-E 5 pfennig
• 1875-A 10 pfennig
• 1875-D 50 pfennig
• 1875-H 50 pfennig
• 1875-J 50 pfennig
• 1875-A mark
• 1875-B mark
• 1875-C mark
• 1875-D mark
• 1875-F mark
• 1875-J mark
• Baden 1875-G 5 mark
• Bavaria 1875-D 5 mark
• Prussia 1875-B 5 mark
• Saxony 1875-E 5 mark
• Hamburg 1875-J 10 mark
• Wurttemberg 1875-F 5 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1875
• return to coins of German States, Hamburg