Germany ½ mark 1906 G - Wilhelm II

Germany · 1906 · ½ mark

Circulating coinUncommon

€2.85estimate

4,272,502coins minted

€3.70silver value · 2.49 g fine at today’s price

N2340 KM17 AKS6 J16 SCHöN17

RZReference number RZRZ-CBHD7

Circulating coin

Series of ½ mark of the German Empire (1905-1919)

The coin's story

This ½ mark coin in 900 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1905 to 1919, under Emperor William II and then at the beginning of the Weimar Republic. The mark, divided into 100 pfennig, was introduced in 1873 in the new German Empire, it replaced the thalers and gulden of the former states, whose last coins were abolished on 1 January 1876. Like all the subsidiary coins of the Empire, it bears the imperial eagle rather than the portrait of a sovereign, with the legend DEUTSCHES REICH (German Empire) on the reverse. The letter below the eagle indicates the mint: A for Berlin, D for Munich, E for Muldenhütten, F for Stuttgart, G for Karlsruhe and J for Hamburg. The 1906 G date, struck in Karlsruhe, has 4,272,502 pieces, there are also 10 to 30 in proof. The coin was demonetised on 20 April 1920.

ObverseThe Imperial Eagle

Design: The imperial eagle displayed, head to the left, wearing the collar of the Order of the Black Eagle and bearing the arms of Prussia on its breast, under the imperial crown, between two oak branches.
Marks: G, letter of the Karlsruhe Mint.

ReverseThe Value

DEUTSCHES REICH1/2MARK1906

Design: The value in two lines within an oak wreath, the date at the bottom.
Legend: DEUTSCHES REICH (German Empire).
Denomination: 1/2 MARK.
Date: 1906.