Oldest Coin Find Yet - - 1893 Deutsches Reich

[MentalUnrest]

Found this in a dime roll - Could not find much about it from Google. I found some 1893 that were 10s but no 5s. Oldest coin before this was a 1910 Cent.

 

[RIcoinhunter]

NICE

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

awesome coin!!! is it silver? nice score! keep it up and hh!

 

[MentalUnrest]

It feels and sounds like silver, but I have not found anything out about this yet online. Anyone know anything about this coin?

 

[rileyboy]

Look up "World Coins" on your internet and then look under German Empire. Saw your
coin there. Doesn't say wether it's silver or not, but I would think it might be. You ahve to do a little more research then I did.
Good luck
rileyboy

 

[CardsNCoins]

Try here:

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1916.html

 

[KyFreeBird]

 

[Syrys]

Neat coin! It is copper-nickel, and if it is a D mint mark (looks like it is) it's worth about 6-12 dollars

 

[Moneypenny]

Cool! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfennig and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_gold_mark have a little more info. Really interesting

 

[AGninja]

cool piece of history - didnt the Reich's hyperinflate in 1920-24? if thats the case i cant imagine that the coin is silver.

 

[ivan salis]

after WW1 (ended 1918)-- in the 1920 to 1924 era germany hyper inflated its money due to huge war reoperatuion debts imposed on it by the allies -- basically the allies told germany --you are going to have to pay us back the cost of going to war with you. -- this of course crippled the german economy and the german govt said --fine we will pay you --so they printed up HUGE amounts of paper mark money with no backing behind it (thus the international exchange rate of marks to foreign money fell wildly)-- thus the german mark bills became like monoply money --it started taking more and more of them to buy anything * -it got so bad that they were printing million mark notes -just so folks would not have to take a wheelborrow full of small value mark bills to the store to buy a loaf of bread.

in 1893 when this coin was made germany was a strong country still -- but copper nickel blend was in common use --in higher value coins silver was used at this time.

 

[mr_larry]

after WW1 (ended 1918)-- in the 1920 to 1924 era germany hyper inflated its money due to huge war reoperatuion debts imposed on it by the allies -- basically the allies told germany --you are going to have to pay us back the cost of going to war with you. -- this of course crippled the german economy and the german govt said --fine we will pay you --so they printed up HUGE amounts of paper mark money with no backing behind it (thus the international exchange rate of marks to foreign money fell wildly)-- thus the german mark bills became like monoply money --it started taking more and more of them to buy anything * -it got so bad that they were printing million mark notes -just so folks would not have to take a wheelborrow full of small value mark bills to the store to buy a loaf of bread.

in 1893 when this coin was made germany was a strong country still -- but copper nickel blend was in common use --in higher value coins silver was used at this time.

Basically what the U.S. is doing today!

Very cool coin, a keeper for sure!