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Latest revision as of 14:40, 30 September 2025

from Stack's Bowers October 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71569
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This specimen was lot 71569 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2020), where it sold for $230.40. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. 5 Pfennig, 1907-A. Berlin Mint. PCGS PROOF-66 Gold Shield. A steely gray example with tremendous brilliance and radiance, and exceeded in the PCGS population report by just a single specimen." This coin is from a type issued 1890-1915 from the Berlin (mintmark "A", shown here), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted for the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design.

Recorded mintage: 11,930,000, a common date.

Specifications: 2.5 g, copper-nickel, 18 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-11; J-12.

Sources:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
  • [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.

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