Looking for help

[sberatel]

Hello,
I am looking for specialist on 3rd Reich silver coins. I have 3 coins with unknown mintmark. It is generally known that 3rd Reich had a number of mints (coin factories). Each mint location had its own identifiable letter listed bellow:

A = Berlin
B = Wien (Vienna)
D = München (Munich)
E = Muldenhutten
F = Stuttgart
G = Karlsruhe
J = Hamburg

But 3 of my coins are marked "6" see picture bellow. First I thought it is flaw in the minting of "G", but upon close survey it is 6, any opinion or advice cam be provided? Maybe I am wrong. Thanks

I did high resolution scan to compare "G" and this "6" mark on 3 different coins, as you can see it is big difference at all - so no G at all

Appreciate any help

 

[Vielwerth]

Welcome to this forum,
maybe it's a wrong mitig(is this correct?) an it's a G,sometimes the mint has got damaged stamps(I mean "Stempel").

I hope I could help you.

 

[Razorback]

Wenn schon auf Englisch, dann wenigstens verständlich... Wir reden hier von Münzen und nicht von Briefmarken.

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Hi,

I´d say that these coins are just struck from weak dies. Also possible is a fault from the die cutter. I know few examples of this coin type with the mintmark very hard to read. For example, a piece struck at Munich "D" and the mintmark looks like a "C" in the mirror. Or pieces where it is nearly impossible to decide if it is "E" or "F". I know these weak "G", too and do not expect it to be something special.

Maybe that these all are variants, but I´m no specialist for that. But I know that this is definitely not rare.

Regards, Razorback

 

[corrado26]

Wenn schon auf Englisch, dann wenigstens verständlich... Wir reden hier von Münzen und nicht von Briefmarken.

Schau doch mal, er ist doch erst 13, in dem Alter war Dein Englisch auch noch nicht besser, oder
Gruß
corrado26

 

[Vielwerth]

Weißt du was stempel heißt?Soll ich da ne lücke stehen lassen,außerdem hatte vorher keiner geantwortet,also wollt ich überhaupt erstmal was schreiben,damit er sieht dass hier was los ist.

 

[Razorback]

@corrado26

Ich behaupte auch heute nicht, dass ich perfekt Englisch könnte... für den Hausgebrauch reicht´s aber. Jedenfalls spare ich mir Antworten, wenn ich nicht in der Lage bin mich verständlich zu machen. Abgesehen davon findet man als sog. "Internetgeneration" eigentlich unzählige Wörterbücher online...

Gruß Razorback

 

[sberatel]

I´d say that these coins are just struck from weak dies. Also possible is a fault from the die cutter. I know few examples of this coin type with the mintmark very hard to read. For example, a piece struck at Munich "D" and the mintmark looks like a "C" in the mirror. Or pieces where it is nearly impossible to decide if it is "E" or "F". I know these weak "G", too and do not expect it to be something special.

Maybe that these all are variants, but I´m no specialist for that. But I know that this is definitely not rare.

Regards, Razorback

Razorback,
thank you for your answer, but as you can see from scan, the "6" is minted strong and clearly, no sign of weak minting even on coin, if the "G" would be minted weak, it would be missing some part of its shape, but this is not the case at all, even the characteristic shape of "6" number is not similar to "G" shape, at bottom it is rounded, it has no sharp shape at bottom characteristic to "G" letter, at top it closes like "6" and it is missing open space inside letter which is characteristic to "G" letter

 

[jeggy]

I think, it's caused by a die break.

Think the other way round - from die's view: the tiny connection between the horizonal serif of the "G" letter and the vertical bar on the left hand side of the "G" is always exposed to massive forces. This weak link breaks at some time - the tiny piece breaks off. Other parts from the "G" erode in some way: the result is a "6".

 

[brdmünzen]

I think sberatel isn't totally wrong.
The font on the whole coin is a kind of "Deutsche Fraktur".
Presumtive the mintmark should be a piece of this font.
The mintmark look more like a "6" than a capital "G" out of this font.

For a quick view see Microsoft Word's font "Old English Text".

 

[diwidat]

I think sberatel isn't totally wrong.
The font on the whole coin is a kind of "Deutsche Fraktur".

Respect he got it. seldom was "Fractur" Font used für mintmarks. Remember 50 Pfennig 1919 to 1921 shows Fractur as well.



At my coin shows the "6" clarely the difference to a number 6. There is a tip at top and on first shoulder, unusually for numbers.