Germany 1921-E 5 pfennig

Stephen Album sale 32, lot 1250

This specimen was lot 1250 in Stephen Album sale 32 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2018), where it sold for $105.75. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY: Weimar Republic, 5 pfennig, 1921-E, couple of small spots, PCGS graded Proof details (environmental damage)." This coin is an iron five pfennig from a type issued 1915-22 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Muldenhutten (mintmark "E", shown here), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints.

Recorded mintage: 21,104,000, a slightly better date.

Specification: 2.51 g, iron, 17.8 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM Y-21.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 32, featuring the Don Erickson Collection of German Coins, Part II and the Hazerfans Collection of Ottoman Empire Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2018.

Link to:

• 1921-J 5 pfennig
• 1921-D 50 pfennig
• 1922-E 3 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1921
• return to coins of Germany, Weimar Republic (1918-1933)