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Gold coins using many different standards including ducats, goldgulden,Ĭarolins, gulden, thalers, krone, maximilians (d'or), fredericks, friederichs, The mark had long been a unit of account in much of Europe beingĮquivalent to two thirds of a pound. With denominations over 1 mark, and the smaller currency units were issued by

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Kingdoms, 6 grand duchies and principalities, 3 free cities, and the provinceĪlthough Bismarck created a central bank, a unified legal system, and a commonĬurrency, individual states were still entitled to issue gold and silver coins

According to Krause, the new nation consisted of 4 On Aprilġ4th 1871, the king of Prussia, the largest and most powerful state becomeĮmperor William I. Instrumental in unifying most of these states into a modern nation. States some with a population as few as 300 people. At this point it is estimated that there were as many as 1,800 separate Hapsburgs attempted to unify Germany ending in the thirty years war 1618 -ġ648, which devastated the German economy, and heightened the localisation of Large, others small, and power rested mainly with the lords of each state. Received the Low Countries and retained the Imperial title.įor many centuries Germany was in actuality a large number of states, some Modern Germany, although nominally still subject to his brother Lothair I who Louis the German received the eastern part corresponding roughly to The Holy Roman Empire was split into three parts byĬharlemagne at the Treaty of Verdun in 843 AD, each of his three sons getting If you see any of the following annotations on a coin, it is probably a German coin.German Gold Coins - Germany | Chards | Tax Free GoldĪlthough the word German was used by the Romans relating to a tribe in thatĪrea, the area known now as Germany has evolved over a long period of time into If you see any one of these on a coin, it is probably from Germany. You will find a long list of German states, cities, and coin denominations. Further, German names often contain VON (meaning 'of') and you will see this annotation when a coin commemorates a particular German ruler. Inscriptions of DEUTSCHES (German), BUNDES (nation), or REICH (empire) indicate German origins. Before the Empire congealed under Prussian chancellor Otto vo Bismarck in 1871, dozens of autonomous German States and German cities issued thousands of different types of coins in many different monetary units. To properly understand German coinage, one must understand the history of Germany, the German States, and German cities.

There are several varieties of many of these coins. Do not worry if your coin does not look exactly like the one pictured or is large or small in size. Heavily worn or damaged coins are always worth less than specimens showing average wear. Some coins have special dates and mint marks that increase their value, some coins derive value from their pristine state of preservations (called uncirculated coins). To look up specific coins, use the search functions on this web site. Coins closer to the top of the page, and coins closer to the top of a group, command higher values than coins in lower positions. Coins on this page are arranged from the most valuable to the least valuable, and they are also shown in four major groups.

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