Germany 1914-D 5 pfennig

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This coin is a copper-nickel five pfennig struck at the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Munich (mintmark "D", shown here), 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. This type was struck 1890-1915 but wartime shortages forced the regime to convert the coin to iron in 1915-22.

Recorded mintage: 3,014,000, a common date.

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

Catalog reference: KM 11.

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.

Link to:

• 1913-D 5 pfennig
• 1913-F 5 pfennig
• 1914-E pfennig
• 1914-E 10 pfennig
• 1914-A ½ mark
• 1914-A mark
• 1914-D mark
• 1914-E mark
• 1914-G mark
• Anhalt 1914-A 3 mark
• Anhalt 1914-A 5 mark
• Baden 1914-G 20 mark
• Bavaria 1914-D 2 mark
• Bavaria 1914-D 5 mark
• Bavaria 1914-D 20 mark
• Guhrau 1914 notgeld
• Hamburg 1914-J 3 mark
• Prussia 1914-A 3 mark
• Prussia 1914-A 5 mark
• Prussia 1914-A 20 mark
• Saxe-Meiningen 1914-D 10 mark
• Saxe-Meiningen 1914-D 20 mark
• Saxony 1914-E 2 mark
• Saxony 1914-E 5 mark
• Saxony 1914-E 20 mark
• Wurttemberg 1914-F 3 mark
• Wurttemberg 1914-F 20 mark
• 1915-J 5 pfennig, iron
• Coins and currency dated 1914
• return to coins of Germany, Empire (1871-1918).