Germany 1916-F mark

Stack's Bowers 2019 Collector's Choice sale, lot 71460

This specimen was lot 71460, in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $144. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1916-F. Stuttgart Mint. PCGS MS-64. A deeply toned Near Gem, offering slate gray surfaces and an underlying luster, along with an olive-gold brilliance as one approaches the peripheries." This coin is a silver one mark from a type issued 1891-1916 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F", shown here), 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. 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: 306,000 (a better date).

Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KM-14; J-17.

Source:

• 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.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.

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• 1915-D mark
• 1915-F mark
• 1915-G mark
• 1915-J mark
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• 1916-A 3 kopeks, military occupation coinage
• 1916-E pfennig
• 1916-A ½ mark
• 1916-D ½ mark
• 1916-E ½ mark
• 1916-G ½ mark
• Wurttemberg 1916-F 3 mark
• 1917-A pfennig
• Coins and currency dated 1916