Germany 1915-J mark
TThis specimen was lot 77344 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1915-J. Hamburg Mint. Wilhelm II. PCGS MS-67." This coin is a silver mark from a type issued 1891-1916 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J", shown here) mints. Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted to the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design. The pre-war silver marks are not rare but the 1914-16 issues were almost completely hoarded, making them common today in all grades.
Recorded mintage: 1,634,000, a common date.
Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, .160 troy oz AGW, 24 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-14; J-17.
- 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, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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- 1914-A mark
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- 1914-E mark
- 1914-G mark
- 1915-D 5 pfennig, struck in iron
- 1915-J 5 pfennig
- 1915-D ½ mark
- 1915-F ½ mark
- 1915-J ½ mark
- 1915-A mark
- 1915-D mark
- 1915-G mark
- Baden 1915-G 3 mark
- Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1915-A 3 mark without Luneburg
- Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1915-A 5 mark without Luneburg
- Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1915-A 5 mark with Luneburg
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1915-A 5 mark
- Prussia 1915-A 3 mark, Mansfeld centennial
- Prussia 1915-A 20 mark
- Saxe-Meiningen 1915 3 mark death of the duke
- 1916-F mark
- Coins and currency dated 1915
- return to coinage of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)