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Pillar of the Community
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I have yet to buy a 19th century Krause...Could someone be so kind as to give me the book value (all circulated grades) for this coin, please? Germany - 1893 - 1 Reichspfennig - mint mark "A"Thanks for your help.  P.S. if anyone knows of an online guide that I can use in the mean time, I would be happy to hear about it!  |
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As far as book value is concerned, I've only got a 2004 edition, but I don't think the numbers will have changed very much in this case: 25¢ in Fine, 50¢ in VF, $2 in EF.
For "online guides" for world coin prices, you've got to pay to use NumisMaster. Worldcoingallery only has generic values for the type.
As an aside, this coin is just a "pfennig". They didn't formally become "reichspfennigs" until 1924.
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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Thanks Sap! I appreciate it. As for adding the "Reichs"...force of habit. My main area of collecting is WWII coins. Thanks! Edited by schmidty
01/22/2010 10:17 pm
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GDay Schmidty - I'm another of those 'Reichsmark' era guys ;)... BUT for online Values of German stuff, the best I have found is --> http://www.beutler-muenzen.de/Its not PERFECT (the odd price that makes no sense), but this place is generally regarded as pretty much on the money for current market values - its in EUR and arranged by Jaeger Nr. of course, but thats no great hassle - in fact, arranged by Jaeger Nr. is the way it should be! :) |
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Thanks Zaggy! That page will be a big help. I put it in my Favorites. (Sort-of) funny story: I translated it with Google Translate, and it took me a second to find the 3rd Reich coins, because it tranlated it too well. They became 3 Empire coins. Took me a second to realize!   And "Jaeger" numbers become "Hunter" numbers. You get so used to seeing those German words that you (at least I) don't even think about what they translate to in English. |
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Beleive me Schmidty, you spend enough time with this stuff and you find yourself suddenly able to read the odd paragraph of German. My Grammar is TERRIBLE, but 2.5 years of researching this stuff has left me able to get a pretty decent understanding of what is happening in most paragraphs - although normally from there I need to do a more detailed translation :)
And atleast with Numismatik Katalog's, the vocabulary is pretty small - you need to know stuff like Jaeger Numbers, what the words for Diameter, Weight, Material and etc is, and then just what the grades are - that keeps 90% of ppl happy!
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I don't do research to nearly the degree you do, but I know what you mean. I have been developing a VERY rudimentary German vocabulary.
Regrding your research, do you have a web-site, or any books or papers you have published? I would be intersted to see it.
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Nothing 'Published' as yet; Only been going 2.5years, but I have got 400+ pages knocked up on the main paper... Once it is all done (and published), I am planning some smaller extracts on a few of my favourite and most misunderstood aspects :)
If you have a particular question or area you're interested in, I can probably point you towards something that will help.
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