Germany 1876-D 20 pfennig
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This specimen was lot 2859 in Stephen Album sale 41 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2021), where it sold for $84. The catalog description[1] noted, "GERMANY: Wilhelm I, 1871-1888, AR 20 pfennig, 1876-D, fully lustrous, NGC graded MS64." 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 issue of the Munich mint is a common date of a type struck 1873-77. When the twenty pfennig was revived in 1887, it was in copper-nickel (KM 9.1).
Recorded mintage: 14,152,000.
Specification: 1.11 g, 0.900 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-5.
- 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]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 41, featuring the Dick Nanta Collection of Giray Khans, Part II, the Charles Opitz Collection of Ethnographic Money, Part II, and the Allan F. Pacela Collection of Chinese Coins. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.
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- 1874-A 20 pfennig
- 1874-G 20 pfennig
- 1874-H 20 pfennig
- 1876-C 10 pfennig
- 1876-D 10 pfennig
- 1876-E 20 pfennig
- 1876-F 20 pfennig
- 1876-A 50 pfennig
- 1876-F 50 pfennig
- 1876-J mark
- 1876 2 mark
- Bavaria 1876-D 5 mark
- Bavaria 1876-D 20 mark
- Hamburg 1876-J 2 mark
- Hesse 1876-H 5 mark
- Prussia 1876-A 5 mark
- Prussia 1876-B 5 mark
- Saxony 1876-E 5 mark
- Wurttemberg 1876-F 20 mark
- 1877-F 20 pfennig
- Coins and currency dated 1876
- return to coinage of Germany, Empire (1871-1918)