Saxe-Meiningen 1902-D 5 mark Dav-841

Heritage sale 3024, lot 24108

This specimen was lot 24108 in Heritage sale 3024 (Chicago, April 2013), where it sold for $1,292.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Saxe-Meiningen. Georg II 5 Mark 1902-D, MS64 NGC, variety with long beard, a choice original example with light amber patina and full mint brilliance." This scarce type was struck 1902 and 1908. "Short beard" and "long beard" varieties exist.

Recorded mintage: 20,000.

Specification: 27.77 g, 0.900 fine silver, 38 mm diameter, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: Dav-841, KM 200.

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.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3024, featuring the Kairos and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collections, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.

Link to:

• 1901 5 mark
• 1902-E pfennig
• 1902-A 5 pfennig
• 1902-F 50 pfennig
• 1902-A mark
• 1902-J mark
• Baden 1902-G 5 mark, 50th anniversary of reign
• Bavaria 1902-D 5 mark
• Hamburg 1902-J 5 mark
• Prussia 1902-A 5 mark Dav-789
• Saxe-Meiningen 1902-D 2 mark
• Saxe-Meiningen 1902-D 10 mark
• Saxony 1902 5 mark, death of king Albert
• Wurttemberg 1902-F 5 mark
• Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 1903-A 5 mark
• 1905 20 mark
• 1908 5 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1902
• return to coins of German States, Saxe-Meiningen