Live auction - fwo_386042 - GERMANY - SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE- GEORGE I 3 Mark 1911 Berlin

GERMANY - SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE- GEORGE I 3 Mark 1911 Berlin MS

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Estimate :	300 €
Price :	350 €
Maximum bid :	350 €
End of the sale :	28 June 2016 17:51:21
bidders :	4 bidders

Type : 3 Mark

Date: 1911

Mint name / Town : Berlin

Quantity minted : 50000

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 33 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 16,67 g.

Edge : inscrite en creux

Coments on the condition:

Infimes traces de manipulation

Catalogue references :

AKS.19

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Argenor et de la collection du Docteur Frédéric Nordmann

Obverse

Obverse legend : GEORG FURST ZU SCHAUMBURG LIPPE * 10 X 1846 + 29 IV 1911.

Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche de Georges Ier / A.

Obverse translation : (Georges Ier de Schaumbourg-Lippe* 10 Octobre 1846 - 29 Avril 1911).

Reverse

Reverse legend : DEUTSCHES REICH 1911 * DREI MARK*.

Reverse description : Aigle héraldique impérial couronné.

Reverse translation : (Empire allemand, trois mark).

Commentary

Il n’existe pas de pièces de 3 mark courantes à l’effigie de Georges Ier, seulement une 2 mark et une 5 mark. Cette pièce de 3 mark est une monnaie de commémoration frappée à la mort du prince Georges Ier. A l’avers figurent les dates de naissance de de décès du prince..

Historical background

GERMANY - SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE- GEORGE I

(1893-1911)

Georges (1846-1911) was sovereign of the small principality of Schaumbourg-Lippe, Germany, from 1893 until his death. Born in Bückeburg, Georges is the eldest son of Prince Adolphe I and his wife Hermine de Waldeck-Pyrmont. He succeeded his father at the head of the principality on his death on May 8, 1893..