Germany 1937-A 2 mark

from the Stack's Bowers 2020 Collector's Choice sale, lot 70627

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.

Source:

• 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 5 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)