NAZI COINS

[bigjarofwasps]

The 5 Reichsmark coin was minted between 1936-39 weights 13.9 g. diam: 29 mm. and contains 90% silver.

The following letters (minting places) can be found on different years on the 5 R-mark:

A 1936-39

B 1939

D 1936-39

E 1936-39

F 1936-39

G 1936-39

J 1936-39

If fakes, the forgery might have forgotten to do his/her homework and thus some coins might not apply to the above standards.

[bigjarofwasps]

The 5 mark coins were minted between 1934 and 1939 prior to the war and are minted in .900 silver.

The coin weighs approximately 13.89 grams and has a diameter of 29mm.

The Front of the coin features an eagle holding a Swastica or the "Potsdam Garrison Church" and the obverse commemorates the German Army General Paul Von Hindenburg.

The 2 Mark coins were minted between 1936 and 1939 prior to the war and are minted in .635 silver.

The coin weighs approximately 8 grams and has a diameter of 25mm.

The Front of the coin features an eagle holding a Swastica and the obverse commemorates the German Army General Paul Von Hindenburg.

[bigjarofwasps]

The nazis never struck gold-coins. What you can find on e-bay or other auction sites are just people trying to lure money from other people, thus the "gold-coins" are not authetic.

[bigjarofwasps]

Ebay is not always the answer! I have plenty of proper Nazi German coins (being actually in Germany).

[bigjarofwasps]

The German States:

Bayern: Kreuzer 1856 Fine EUR1.50

Brunswick Wolfenbuettel: 1/12 Taler 1789 Fair EUR2.00

Hamburg: Dreiling 1851 VF+ EUR2.50

Hamburg: Schilling 1763 AF EUR4.00

Hannover: Groschen 1859 GEF EUR5.00

Lauenberg: 1/2 Dreiling 1739 Fair EUR2.00

Preussen (Prussia):

1/4 Groschen 1811A F-VF EUR4.00

Groschen 1843D Fine EUR2.50

2 1/2 Silber Groschen 1843A Fine EUR2.50

2 Mark 1913 (100yrs since Napoleonic war) UNC EUR20.00

3 Mark 1913 (100yrs since Napoleonic war) GEF EUR25.00

3 Mark 1913A VF+/NEF EUR14.00

3 Mark 1912A (Kaiser Bill) Strong VF EUR16.00

5 Mark 1875C (scarcer mint letter) Fine EUR33.00

5 Mark 1914A VF EUR28.00

Taler 1818A F/NVF pretty EUR40.00

Sachsen (Saxony...Where I live!):

5 Pfenninge 1863B Fine EUR2.00

3 Mark 1909E VF/VF+ EUR22.00

Schwarzburg Rudolstadt: 1/4 Kreuzer 1861 VF EUR4.00

Wuerttemberg:

3 Kreuzer 1810 AF EUR7.50

3 Mark 1909F VF EUR18.00

3 Mark 1910F VF EUR18.00

Deutches Reich (inc 3rd Reich):

2 Reichspfennig 1936D BU EUR10.00

5 Reichspfennig 1874C EF EUR15.00

1 Mark 1875A Fine EUR1.50

1 Mark 1875B VF EUR3.00

1 Mark 1875E VF EUR3.00

1 Mark 1875H Fine EUR1.50

1 Mark 1881D VF EUR2.00

1 Mark 1914A UNC EUR15.00

1 Mark 1914E GEF EUR9.00

1 Mark 1914J EF EUR6.00

50Pf 1921D UNC EUR1.00

50Pf 1921F UNC EUR1.00

200 Mark 1923A UNC EUR1.00

10Pf 1939A AUNC but with odd dark stain EUR4.00

1 Mark 1934D AUNC with some staining EUR2.50

1 Mark 1935J rare EF EUR40.00

2 Mark 1938E EF+ EUR3.00

2 Mark 1938E EF EUR2.50

2 Mark 1939E EF EUR3.00

2 Mark 1938A EF EUR3.00

2 Mark 1937A NEF EUR2.50

2 Mark 1937D EF EUR2.00

2 Mark 1939D EF EUR2.00

2 Mark 1939A AUNC EUR3.00

2 Mark 1939F AUNC EUR2.50

2 Mark 1938A VF EUR1.50

5 Mark 1934A EF EUR2.50

5 Mark 1934E AUNC with date either side of church EUR90.00

5 Mark 1934F VF EUR2.50

Bundesrepublik:

1Pf 1949F UNC EUR18.00

5Pf 1950F AUNC EUR3.50

10Pf 1950G AUNC EUR3.00

Mark 1966D EF EUR2.00

2 Mark 1994G UNC EUR3.00

5 Mark 1958D VF EUR3.50

5 Mark 1966D EF ?5.00

5 Mark 1968 Guttenberg Proof EUR15.00

5 Mark 1968 Raiffeisen Proof EUR15.00

10 Mark 1995F Henry Duke Bavaria and Saxony Prooflike UNC EUR7.00

10 Mark 1991A Brandenburg gate UNC EUR6.50

10 Mark 1992G Kollwitz UNC EUR7.00

I have a small selection of GDR too, but that's enough of a list for today.

www.predecimal.com

[bigjarofwasps]

Ebay is not always the answer! I have plenty of proper Nazi German coins (being actually in Germany).

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I recommend you buy your Nazi coins from Chris Perkins, at the above website, instead of ebay.

[byf]

You have a great deal of knowledge on this topic. My 5 Mark piece has the A mint mark, 1936, where was that mint? I had always wondered about German gold coins. I did get to see a Nazi marked gold bar once. It was about 4"x 1.5"x .5" with a nice eagle stamped on it. I don't know what it was worth.It was cool. Thanks.

byf

[bigjarofwasps]

Hi Byf,

Your gold bar sounds really interesting, where did you see it? I wonder what the value of it would be? ie the gold content, the history?? Would anyone be able to sell it knowing where its come from?? Interesting? As for your mint, I`m sorry, but I`m unable to answer your question, I`m sure theres someone out there who more knowledgable than me, I`m just an amateur, I`m afraid with regards Nazi items. Sorry.

Gordon.

[byf]

I saw the gold bar like ten years ago at a gun show. The guy who had it was rather strange. It was not for sale, just for show. It sure was pretty. He mainly dealt in ordnance and exotic ammo. I would think the value would be higher than the weight with historical value added. Who knows where the Krauts got the gold to make it. Thanks.

byf

[bigjarofwasps]

Cheers byf, thats very interesting. I assume the gun show was out there in the States.

BJOW

[bigjarofwasps]

Nazi Gold

Soon after the out break of the war the German national gold reserves, already substantially increased by the acquisition of Austrian gold holdings following the Auchluss, were significantly augmented by forcible acquisitions from abroad. The Nazi’s took $2,596,608 of gold from the gold reserves of the Czech National Bank and ?32,200,000 from the National Bank of Hungary. They looted part of the gold reserves of Albania, Holland the USSR and other countries overrun of the victorious Wehrmacht, and after the conquest of France they stole $225,900,000 worth of gold, comprising part of the Belgian national gold reserves, which was deposited in the Banque de France for safekeeping, by the Belgian government. The Belgian gold was taken to the Reichsbank in Berlin and resmelted. Each bar was stamped with the letters RB for Reichsbank, the German eagle, the retrospective date 1938, and its weight to three points of the decimal.

Later, when the Germans were forced to withdraw from Southern Italy in the face of the advancing Anglo-American forces, they took with them $100,000,000 in Italian gold, which also ended up in the Reichsbank`s reserves.

At the height of the Nazi conquest of Europe the gold reserves held by the Reichsbank were estimated to total as much as $772,636,253. By today’s values the equivalent of $6,490,144,525 much of it looted from subject nations of Europe.

Following US air raids on Berlin in early Feb 1945, over $200,000,000 worth of gold reserves, were moved from Berlin, to the Kaiseroda Mine. Weighing around 100 tons, it needed 13 railway flat cars to transport it and took 72 hours to unload and transfer them to twenty 10 ton trucks.

[bigjarofwasps]

The Gold Train included everything from silverware and watches to "wedding rings and gold teeth with human blood on them," Zweig writes. The material was from hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews rounded up by the SS and Hungarian fascists in the spring of 1944.

[bigjarofwasps]

In a salt mine in Merkers, Germany in 1945, the 90th Division, U.S. Third Army, discovered Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and paintings from Berlin

When the Americans discovered the Merkers mine treasure in 1945, a partial inventory revealed:

8,198 bars of gold bullion

55 boxes of crated gold bullion

hundreds of bags of gold items

over 1,300 bags of gold Reichsmarks, British gold pounds, and French gold francs

711 bags of American twenty-dollar gold pieces

hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins

hundreds of bags of foreign currency

9 bags of valuable coins

2,380 bags and 1,300 boxes of Reichsmarks (2.76 billion Reichsmarks)

20 silver bars

40 bags containing silver bars

63 boxes and 55 bags of silver plate

1 bag containing six platinum bars

110 bags from various countries

[Tom Y]

You have a great deal of knowledge on this topic. My 5 Mark piece has the A mint mark, 1936, where was that mint? I had always wondered about German gold coins. I did get to see a Nazi marked gold bar once. It was about 4"x 1.5"x .5" with a nice eagle stamped on it. I don't know what it was worth.It was cool. Thanks.

byf

The mint marks were:

A-Berlin

B- Vienna (Previously Hannover,1866-78)

D-Munich

E-Muldenhutten (Previously Dresden,1872-87)

F-Stuttgart

G-Karlsruhe

J-Hamburg

[bigjarofwasps]

byf,

Is this the type of Nazi Gold bar you saw?

[bigjarofwasps]

I wonder???

[bigjarofwasps]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone know, how many Gold Francs, were minted by the Swiss in 1947-49?

I wonder if this is where some of the Nazi Gold went?

[bigjarofwasps]

Nazi Gold

Soon after the out break of the war the German national gold reserves, already substantially increased by the acquisition of Austrian gold holdings following the Auchluss, were significantly augmented by forcible acquisitions from abroad. The Nazi’s took $2,596,608 of gold from the gold reserves of the Czech National Bank and ?32,200,000 from the National Bank of Hungary. They looted part of the gold reserves of Albania, Holland the USSR and other countries overrun of the victorious Wehrmacht, and after the conquest of France they stole $225,900,000 worth of gold, comprising part of the Belgian national gold reserves, which was deposited in the Banque de France for safekeeping, by the Belgian government. The Belgian gold was taken to the Reichsbank in Berlin and resmelted. Each bar was stamped with the letters RB for Reichsbank, the German eagle, the retrospective date 1938, and its weight to three points of the decimal.

Later, when the Germans were forced to withdraw from Southern Italy in the face of the advancing Anglo-American forces, they took with them $100,000,000 in Italian gold, which also ended up in the Reichsbank`s reserves.

At the height of the Nazi conquest of Europe the gold reserves held by the Reichsbank were estimated to total as much as $772,636,253. By today’s values the equivalent of $6,490,144,525 much of it looted from subject nations of Europe.

Following US air raids on Berlin in early Feb 1945, over $200,000,000 worth of gold reserves, were moved from Berlin, to the Kaiseroda Mine. Weighing around 100 tons, it needed 13 railway flat cars to transport it and took 72 hours to unload and transfer them to twenty 10 ton trucks.

Gold in the Kaiseroda mine

8,527 gold bars, valued at $112,000,000. Minted gold coins, valued at $126,000,000, included a million Swiss Francs, a billion French Francs and 711 bags of US $20 gold pieces.

250 tons of gold in total.

Reichsbank in Berlin, liberated by the Russians.

90 gold bars worth $1,278,000 and over four and a half million gold coins (dollars, sovereigns, guilders & Francs) worth $,156,625

P31 & P51 Nazi Gold by Ian and Douglas Botting.

Some gold also unexpectedly turned up in the former German embassy in Madrid Spain, in May 1945. Estimated at one ton, with a value of $1,250,000. It consisted entirely of gold coins, mostly British gold sovereigns. It was flown by plane back to Frankfurt in 1946.

P112 Hitler’s Gold by Arthur L Smith.

[bigjarofwasps]

Nazi 3rd Reich Mint Marks

The 3rd Reich had a number of mints (coin factories). Each mint location had its own identifiable letter. It

is therefore possible to identify exactly which mint produced what coin by noting the mint mark (letter)

on the coin. Not all mints were authorised to produce coins every year. The mints were also only

authorised to produced a set number of coins with some mints allocated a greater production than

others. Some of the coins with particular mint marks are therefore scarcer than others. With the silver 2

and 5 Reichsmark coins, the mint mark is found under the date on the left side of the coin (see scans

below). On the smaller denomination Reichspfennig coins, the mint mark is found on the bottom center

of the coin.

A = Berlin

B = Wien (Vienna)

D = M?nchen (Munich)

E = Muldenh?tten (Dresden)

F = Stuttgart

G = Karlsruhe

J = Hamburg

[Andwwils]

Are Nazi-era German coins being faked? These used to be common as dirt at coin shows in the United States up until about 10 years ago.

[bigjarofwasps]

Are Nazi-era German coins being faked? These used to be common as dirt at coin shows in the United States up until about 10 years ago.

Good question, I`ve not come across any yet!!

[bigjarofwasps]

Heres something else I`ve found that I thought might be of interst...

Brazil opens suspected Nazi bank vault

The Brazilian authorities have opened a bank vault in Sao Paulo, containing more than four million dollars worth of property believed to have been stolen from victims of the Nazis.

The vault, belonging to a German named as Albert Blume who arrived in Brazil before the Second World War, was found to contain cash, gold bars and jewellery -- and his diary.

He's alleged to have acted as a banker for Nazis who fled from Germany to South America.

But members of his family deny that, and claim the fortune belongs to them. The Brazilian commission investigating the country's role in sheltering Nazi fugitives is planning to run scientific tests to try to establish ownership.

[Blackbird]

There is a very interesting book called Holocaust Gold, which has a chapter on the Swiss using their ill gotten gains, during the war, to mint gold coins after the war, in an attempt to launder all the gold they bought off thr Nazis. Its well worth a read!! If you can get hold of a copy.