Germany 1939-B 5 mark

from the Stack's Bowers 2024 ANA sale, lot 46242

This specimen was lot 46242 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it sold for $312. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Third Reich. 5 Mark, 1939-B. Vienna Mint. PCGS MS-64." This specimen is a common date of a series struck 1936-40 during the early years of the Nazi regime. The "B" mintmark is for the Vienna mint, which was operated as a German branch mint 1938-44. For a race of Aryan supermen, the Nazis were remarkably unimaginative coin designers and this type is quite dull. Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany 1925-34, despised the Nazis but died soon after they took over.

Recorded mintage: 1,942,000 plus proofs.

Specification: 13.88 g, 0.900 fine silver, 29 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-94; J-367.

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, August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

Link to:

• 1937-A 5 mark, Hindenburg
• 1939-B pfennig
• 1939-A 2 pfennig
• 1939-D 2 pfennig
• 1939-A 5 pfennig
• 1939-A nickel 50 pfennig
• 1939-G mark
• 1939-A 2 mark
• 1939-F 2 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1939
• return to coinage of the Germany, Third Reich (1933-1945)