3 Marks Breslau Univ.

Another beautiful coin from my collection 5 mark from the Hamburg independent state.

Sure. :) But I primarily collect coins from this country (Federal Republic of Germany), not so much the earlier stuff. Nice pieces you have though!

Christian

That's very nice finding people with the same interest.Hope thee is no problem posting a couple of pictures from my last box from NGC;.

epop: no problem at all; feel free to post more. I actually recently acquired a proof 2003 'restrike' of the 1871 Seiges Thaler; only bought it because it was cheap and Silver (paid a bit over melt value)...

If you're really into German stuff, forget about the Krause... Get your hands on the Jaeger Katalog - Die deutsche Münzen seit 1871 - Kurt Jaeger and Helmet Kahnt; the current edition is the 21st --> http://www.amazon.de/Die-deutschen-...p/3866465211 . If you're specifically interested in Kasierreich then, if I remember correctly (I'm at Uni, so cant glance over my shoulder and see my bookshelf :) there is Das Deutsches Kaiserreichmünzen - Thomas Schantl --> http://www.amazon.de/Das-Deutsche-K...p/3932769341 . And finally, the Volker Weege books are highly recommended; most relevant to you will be Münz Fälschungen 2: Deutsches Kaiserreich --> http://www.amazon.de/M%C3%BCnz-F%C3...p/3950226869 .

And you're only interested in Kaiserreich or do you also collect later stuff? (Weimarer Republik, Drittes Reich, DDR/BRD, EURO)

They are some fantastic coins you've got. The only type of coins I allow myself to collect other than just deal in are German coins - especially Kaiserreich and Weimar periods. The variety of designs is unrivalled by any other European country, and historically are often very interesting. Unfortunately the Weimar period peices tend to be comparitively expensive

Jeff, you're quite right about the relative rariety of Kaiserreich silver; I'll start from the top though.

The existance of decent quantity of Kaiserreich silver can be explained by one event, WW1. The German people recognised the 'Physical' value of Silver and began to hoarde these coins. They the time they were demonetised after thje war, their metal value far outweighed their monetary value; thus people held onto them.

Kaiserreich coins are different. Most of these coins were demonetised in early-mid 1930's (1933/4), with the 1933 Monetary Reform (essentially, reducing the size of the coins (although keeping the precious metal content of the 2RM and 5RM) because lets face it, the KR (Kaiserreich) 5M and WR (Weimarer Republik) 5RM are BIG coins AND withdrawing the silver 1RM and 3RM (to be replaced by a Nickel 1RM).

This was a period of relative financial stability and growth with the reforms that the NSDAP Government introduced which continued Germany's impressive emergence from the Depression.

THUS, people were not at all bothered about exchanging their old Silver Coins for New Silver Coins (which in the case of the DR (Drittes Reich) 2RM and 5RM, had the same Silver content anyway) - so unfortunately, we have a lower surviving rate of WR (Weimarer Republik) types!

The same pattern happened in WW2; the German People wise to the effect of war, begin and continued to hoarde the silver coins (despite attempts by the Government of the time to recall them for trade purposes, the Allies attempting to recover them after the war through legislation and later the Bundesrepublik attempting to recover them); thus, we also have a glut of DR silver - most of the DR Silver Types are pretty easy to find and not XXXRARE as so many people try to tell you...

a new acquisition for my collection.
3 mark 1913 Prussian Napoleon Defeat

new acquisition to my German collection