Saxony 1914-E 2 mark

from the Stack's Bowers 2018 ANA sale, lot 22734

This specimen was lot 22734 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $384. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Saxony. 2 Mark, 1914-E. Muldenhutten Mint. PCGS PROOF-65 DEEP CAMEO Secure Holder. Nearly fully white with minimally disturbed frost over the raised design elements. Only surpassed by a single example in the PCGS population report." This is the last and most common date of a type struck 1905-08, 1911-14. This and the five mark of the same year are the last circulating issues from Saxony. A very rare three mark of 1917 (KM 1276) ended a thousand years of minting, altho the Muldenhutten mint continued to operate for the Weimar Republic.

Recorded mintage: 298,000.

Specification: 11.11 g, 0.900 fine silver, 28 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-1263.

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]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.

Link to:

• 1911 2 mark
• Bavaria 1914-D 2 mark
• Hamburg 1914-J 2 mark
• Wurttemberg 1914-F 2 mark
• 1914 5 mark
• 1914 20 mark
• 1917 3 mark, Frederick the Wise, 400th anniversary of the Reformation
• Coins and currency dated 1914
• return to coins of German States, Saxony