German coins
German coins is a collective name / a generic term for coins ( currency coins and commemorative coins ) which were minted by German mints and / or had the character of a means of payment in German currency areas :
| character | from | to | Stamping point |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | 1871 | today | Berlin |
| B. | 1872 | 1878 | Hanover dissolved in 1878 |
| 1938 | 1944 | Vienna | |
| C. | 1872 | 1879 | Frankfurt am Main dissolved in 1880 |
| D. | 1872 | today | Munich |
| E. | 1872 | 1887 | Dresden |
| 1887 | 1953 | Muldenhütten dissolved in 1953 | |
| F. | 1872 | today | Stuttgart |
| G | 1872 | today | Karlsruhe |
| H | 1872 | 1882 | Darmstadt out of service since 1883 |
| J | 1875 | today | Hamburg |
| T | 1916 | 1917 | Tabora , German East Africa |
- Medieval German coins
- German coins before 1871
- there was still no unified / coherent currency area
- Large number of coins from cities, principalities, kingdoms, etc.
- Coins of the German Empire (1871–1918)
- Goldmark (5 to 20 marks)
- Silbermark (½ to 5 marks)
- Pfennig (1 to 50 Pfennig )
- State emergency coins
- German colonial coins of the Imperial Era (1871-1918)
- German New Guinea : New Guinea Mark / Pfennig
- German East Africa (DOA): Pesa , Rupie (with a portrait of Wilhelm II), Heller
- Kiautschou : Cent
- German occupation coins of the imperial era (1871-1918)
- Coins of the Free City of Gdansk (1920–1939)
- Coins of the Weimar Republic (1923–1933)
- State emergency coins (up to 1 trillion marks of the province of Westphalia - largest face value of a coin of all time)
- Reichsmark (1 to 5 Reichsmarks)
- Reichspfennig (1 to 50 pfennigs )
- Pension Pfennig (1 to 50 Pfennig)
- Coins during the National Socialism (1933–1945)
- Reichsmark (1 to 5 marks)
- Reichspfennig (1 to 50 pfennigs )
- Reichskreditkassenmünzen
- Coins of occupation in the Generalgouvernement
- Coins Allied Occupation (1945–1948)
- Coins Saarland (1947–1959)
- Coins Federal Republic of Germany (from 1948)
- German marks (1, 2 and 5 marks, commemorative coins also 5 and 10 marks)
- Pfennig (1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 Pfennig )
- Coins of the German Democratic Republic of the GDR (1948–1990)
- Deutsche Mark (of the German Central Bank ) (1, 2 Deutsche Mark) (1948–1964)
- Mark of the German Central Bank (1 and 2 marks as well as commemorative coins of 5, 10 and 20 marks) (1964–1974)
- Mark of the GDR (1 and 2 marks and commemorative coins of 5, 10 and 20 marks) (1974–1990)
- Pfennig (1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 Pfennig )
- Euro coins
See also
Commons : Coins of Germany - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- German currency history
- Roman coins
- Lübeck coin history
- Mecklenburg coin history
- Saxon coin history
- Medieval coins
- Vicariate coins (Saxony)
- Vicariate coins (Palatinate and Bavaria)
- List of silver coins of the German Empire
- List of Reichsmark coins from the Weimar Republic
- Commemorative coins of the Federal Republic of Germany
- List of commemorative coins of the Federal Republic of Germany (DM)
- List of commemorative coins of the GDR
literature
- Gerhard Schön: German coin catalog 18th century . Battenberg Publishing House
- Arnold / Küthmann / Steinhilber: Large German coin catalog - from 1800 to today . Battenberg Publishing House. ISBN 978-3-86646-006-5
- Kurt Jaeger: The German Coins since 1871 . H. Gietl Verlag
- Paul Menzel: Special catalog silver coins. Germany 1871-2001 . Publishing house coins & paper money Thomas Gradl. ISBN 978-3-942988-018