Germany 1874-G mark

Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70818

This specimen was lot 70818 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it sold for $132. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Empire. Mark, 1874-G. Karlsruhe Mint. Wilhelm I. PCGS MS-64. A dazzling near-Gem with little tone and an exceptional strike." This coin is a silver one mark from a type issued 1873-87 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden, later Muldenhutten (mintmark "E"), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G", shown here) 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: 4,210,000, a better date in high grade.

Specification: 5.55 g, 0.900 fine silver, .160 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM-7; J-9.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

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• 1873-A mark
• 1874-H pfennig
• 1874-A 5 pfennig
• 1874-E 10 pfennig
• 1874-F 10 pfennig
• 1874-H 20 pfennig
• 1874-D mark
• 1874-H mark
• Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1874-A 10 mark
• Oldenburg 1874-B 10 mark
• Prussia 1874-A 5 mark
• Saxony 1874-E 20 mark
• Schaumburg-Lippe 1874-B 20 mark
• 1875-A mark
• 1875-B mark
• 1875-C mark
• 1875-D mark
• 1875-F mark
• 1875-J mark
• Coins and currency dated 1874