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New Member
United States
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So I love German coins, I have a little collection started, WWII being my main focus one because my grandfather served and because of the history , I have come to realize the mint marks are confusing, and there is quite a few. I bought a world coin book a few months back thinking it might help, however I am more in the dark because of it lol. is there a better resource out there? maybe a website? a book I haven't ran across? thanks for the help!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What book did you get? "World Coins" by Krause is a good one and explains the the meanings of the mint marks as well. It would also give you some good information on values.
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Netherlands
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A - Berlin B - Vienna, 1938-1944 D - Munich E - Muldenhutten F - Stuttgart G - Karlsruhe J - Hamburg Hopefully it will help  |
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Germany
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I'd ignore mint marks if you can, it makes collecting so much harder and more expensive. I get one coin of each type, and mint marks I ignore, so I only need one coin rather than 5 (at current). Sometimes one mint mark will be very expensive while another will be cheap!
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France
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Yep, ignoring them is good to start - unless you want to concentrate on a particular place for a reason.
For now I also collect by type / major design - except in some cases ... and it's hard already - and still overly interesting !
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Thailand
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Just depends on the supply I suppose. I came across a lot of the 1 to 50 Pfennig coins (before the Euro)so I decided to collect each year and mint. I have over 480 varieties but am still missing some so it's a real thrill to come across one I don't have.
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Luxembourg
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If you want to concentrate on such a small theme than Germany IIIrd Reich, I find it fascinating to try to accumulate one coin per yearand mint mark.
Getting one of each type is relatively easy, but putting togeather a complete set can be quite challenging.
Nowadays Germany has still 5 active mints: A, D, F, G, J. As far as I know no other country has so many.
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New Member
 United States
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Thank you all for your help, the book I bought was the complete guide to coins and coin collecting, its a fun history book but it's nothing like the Red Book. Anyway I think ill try to start with just years and values and maybe mints at a later time. I wish I could find a display book for Germany kinda like American book sets, but all I can find is modern dates for that. |
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Luxembourg
588 Posts |
Try this catalogue.
It's THE reference book for German coins after 1871. Unfortunately only available in German.
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Luxembourg
588 Posts |
I believed I put a link to a book into my previous answer?
Anyway the book is from Kurt Jäger and is called 'Die deutschen Münzen seit 1871' and is available at it's 21st edition.
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Valued Member
India
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well india had a lot of mints during the mughal era. in the modern era since milled coinage we have had
bombay
calcutta
madras closed down in 1862
hyderabad
lahore - which went to pakistan
noida
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Germany
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Quote:
Anyway the book is from Kurt Jäger and is called 'Die deutschen Münzen seit 1871' and is available at it's 21st edition. Actually it's the 22nd edition now. :) But for somebody who is interested in nazi coins only, that would be too comprehensive and expensive, I think. Here are a few sample pages from the current Jaeger catalog: http://www.gietl-verlag.de/blaetter...og/index.php(Edit) As for the number of mints, the nazi regime did actually have a plan to build one central minting facility in Berlin and then close all others. But that did not happen. The Federal Republic of Germany has five mints, and contrary to the US Mint for example, these are all state owned/operated, not federal institutions. Christian Edited by chrisild
12/05/2011 6:17 pm
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 Australia
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Most countries had more mints in the past than they do now. France used to have a couple dozen; now they only have one. Australia once had three mints, now there's only two (and one of those doesn't strike circulation coins). China used to have at least one mint in each province, now there are only three left on the mainland (and one on Taiwan). Even Germany had more mints back when it first formed (nine) than it does now. I suspect the main factor in decreasing the number of mints is the improvement in transportation and economies of scale means it's cheaper to have just one large mint with coin distributed from there, rather than hire mint workers in multiple sites to do the same job in different places. Quote:
The Federal Republic of Germany has five mints, and contrary to the US Mint for example, these are all state owned/operated, not federal institutions. Which explains why the German multiple-mint system has lasted for so long - each mint is a nice little money-earner for the state it happens to be located in. Here in Australia, we have two mints - one is owned by the federal government, the other owned by the state of Western Australia. These two mints issue completely different coinages (though all are technically Australian legal tender) and have developed quite different artistic styles and conventions; the federal mint's primary purpose is circulation coinage production, while the Pe rth Mint mainly produces bullion. The two mints are in fact in competition with each other for the NCLT collector coin market; on several occasions the two mints have issued rival coins commemorating the same event. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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New Member
United Arab Emirates
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yes, German coins are very interesting to me & I think that ones from Hamburg, 1903 & 1907 come in many varieties. I have lots of them!
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Valued Member
Canada
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Are coins from any one mint more scarce than the other? Is there a mint mark to "look out" for?
I have a collection of a variety of German coins from 1900-1995 (some from each decade) and also want to know if there are any year's I should be looking out for.
Any help is appreciated.
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Germany
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In the Deutsches Reich, which was dominated by Prussia, Berlin/A would usually have the biggest share. Today, in the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-), Stuttgart/F usually has the biggest share. In the first 40 years, before the Eastern states (former GDR) joined the Federal Republic, Stuttgart's default share was 30%, Hamburg 26.7%, Munich 26%, Karlsruhe 17.3%. Once Berlin joined the "DM club", 23 years ago, that was changed to Stuttgart 24%, Hamburg and Munich 21% each, Berlin 20%, Karlsruhe 14%. But that is not universally applied; there may be exceptions ...
Christian
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