Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
5-Mark coin of William II. The federal states of the German Empire were allowed to issue their own silver coins in denominations of 2 and 5 marks from 1873. The Coinage Act of 9 July 1873 regulated how the coins were to be designed: On the obverse or image side only the state sovereign or the coat of arms of the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen or Lübeck was to be depicted, and the coin had to ...
Subsidiary silver coins were minted in .900 fineness to a standard of 5 grams silver per mark. Production of 2 and 5 mark coins ceased in 1915 while 1-mark coins continued to be issued until 1916. A few 3 mark coins were minted until 1918, and 1 ⁄ 2 mark coins continued to be issued in silver until 1919. 20 pfennig, 1.1111 g (1 g silver ...
European Year of Monument Protection. 5 DM, silver, 1975. 300th death anniversary of Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen. 5 DM, silver, 1976. 200th birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss. 5 DM, silver, 1977. 200th birthday of Heinrich von Kleist. 5 DM, silver, 1977. 100th birthday of Gustav Stresemann. 5 DM, silver, 1978.
1948–1990: the East German mark; 1948–2002: the German mark, also called Deutsche Mark or D-Mark, and abbreviated DM; or to one of the other following historical currencies: the merk Scots, an early-modern Scottish silver coin; the Swedish mark, minted 1532–1776 but used as counting unit from medieval time; 1860–2002: the Finnish markka;
What followed was the North German thaler's silver standard lowered after 1750 to 13 1 ⁄ 3 per Cologne Mark, or 17.539 g fine silver (in Prussia, 14 per Mark or 16.704 g). When the gold-silver ratio rose again, the pistole then traded at 5 thalers plus an agio or premium. The pistole's standard varied slightly; at best 35 to a Cologne Mark of ...
All North German thalers and Vereinsthalers were retired after 1873 in favor of the German gold mark, with each mark containing 100 ⁄ 279 gram of fine gold, at the rate of 1 thaler = 3 marks, or a gold ratio of 15.5. While new silver coins issued under the mark were limited legal tender for payments under 20 marks, the Vereinsthaler retained ...
The second issue notes of 1 ℛ︁ℳ︁, 5 ℛ︁ℳ︁, 10 ℛ︁ℳ︁, and 50 ℛ︁ℳ︁ were equal in value to the ordinary German Reichsmark and were printed on both sides. The 5 Mark note pictured, front and back, is Allied military currency ("AMC") printed at Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company in Boston for occupied Germany.
The widely-adopted Leipzig thaler of 1690 was issued at 3 ⁄ 4 th a Reichsthaler specie, or 12 to a Mark, or 19.488 fine silver. From the 1730s the German states unofficially slipped to a gold standard after the gold-silver ratio dropped to 14.5, as states rushed to reissue their currencies in cheaper gold. From 1741 the Friedrich d'or pistole ...