Third Reich 1936 5 Reichsmark - Error?

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-JJH- Valued Member Finland 79 Posts	Posted 11/30/2006 05:42 am I do know that there are 7 mintmarks in Third Reich coins: A, B, D, E, F, G and J. But now I've encountered a strange 1936 silver coin (5RM) that has mintmark '6'...I know that most people will say, that it's just a messed-up 'G'...but no, it is not, it is VERY evident '6'. Here is a close pic of regular mintmark 'G' and this special '6': Any idea what is going on? Thanks for looking, -JJ- Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 11/30/2006 06:18 am The Nazis forced everyone to write German in that archaic typeface instead of the decadent "Roman" font used everywhere else, as you can see from the rest of the coin's inscriptions. I'd say it's just a perfectly normal "German G". Unfortunately, I don't have any Nazi-era G-mintmarked coins to check this hypothesis. What coin is your "regular G" mintmark from? A Nazi era one? 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 Report this Post to the Staff
-JJH- Valued Member Finland 79 Posts	Posted 11/30/2006 08:19 am Regular 'G' is taken from nazi-era silver coin too. That's why I'm so confused, because the pics are taken from quite 'similar' coins but the difference between the letter 'G' and number '6' is very distinctive. -JJ- Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 12/04/2006 07:51 am I went out and bought a Nazi 1937G Hindenburg 2 mark coin today. Here's what the mintmark on this one looks like: To me it looks like a combination of your two marks; it has had a dint across it, though, which you can see continued up into the "1", which may be affecting the appearance. Still, mine looks more like a "G" than a "6". I asked a European coin collector at my local coin club what he thought; he said he recalled that the mintmarks did get "Nazified", at least for a couple of years, but couldn't recall specific details. He seemed to think they went medieval for just a couple of years before switching back. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
amac44 Member United States 3242 Posts	Posted 12/04/2006 09:35 am maybe it Hitler's devil coin!!! Report this Post to the Staff
antidote New Member Germany 8 Posts	Posted 12/07/2006 3:14 pm Forgerie? Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 12/16/2006 7:39 pm quote: Originally posted by Sap I asked a European coin collector at my local coin club what he thought; he said he recalled that the mintmarks did get "Nazified", at least for a couple of years, but couldn't recall specific details. He seemed to think they went medieval for just a couple of years before switching back. Strange, I have not seen any "Fraktur" characters used for German mintmarks. Of course there may be differences and varieties, even today, such as serif and sans-serif characters, a "G" can be roundish with a horizontal line in the middle, or end (on the right) in a vertical line, etc. The latter is true, in my opinion, in the case of JJH's coin (picture on the right) - maybe what "fills" the center of the character is some kind of (die?) damage. As for that archaic typeface, well, that one was pretty common in Germany until the early 20c, mostly for printed documents. With coins, for example, that is different since all-caps Antiqua sure looks better in such cases than mixed-case Fraktur which has a kind of uneven appearance. Anyway, when the Nazi government first enforced Fraktur, people did not have to learn anything new. Ironically it was also the Nazi government that later, in 1941, started to enforce Antiqua for many official purposes. Probably because they thought that the "archaic" Fraktur was not really, errm, expansion compatible ... Christian Report this Post to the Staff
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