Germany 1937-A 2 mark
This specimen was lot 70627 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, February 2020), where it sold for $180. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Third Reich. 2 Mark, 1937-A. Berlin Mint. PCGS MS-65. A dazzling 2 Mark of the Third Reich. Certified MS 65 by PCGS with full mint bloom and a powerful strike. Portrait of President Hindenburg." This specimen is a common date of a series struck 1936-39 during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany. It honored Paul Hindenburg, president of Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933. For a race of Aryan supermen, the Nazis were remarkably unimaginative coin designers and this type is a blatant rip-off of the Polish ten zlotych of 1934-39.
Recorded mintage: 23,425,000.
Specification: 8 g, 0.625 fine silver, 25 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: J-366, KM 93.
- Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The February 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
Link to:
- Germany 1934-E 2 mark Potsdam Garrison Church
- Germany 1934-F 2 mark KM-84 Schiller
- 1937-A pfennig
- 1937-A 2 pfennig
- 1937-A 5 pfennig
- 1937-F 5 pfennig
- 1937-A 10 pfennig
- 1937-F 10 pfennig
- 1937-A 50 pfennig
- 1937-G 2 mark, Hindenburg
- 1937-A 5 mark, Hindenburg, with swastika
- Poland 1937 10 zlotych
- 1938-B 2 mark, Hindenburg
- Coins and currency dated 1937
- return to coins of Germany, Third Reich (1933-1945)