Coin Catalog Germany - German Coins from 1806 up to the Euro

After the Middle Ages, the variety of coins in Germany was based on efforts to create a unified national state as a single nation state to create one currency. Until the foundation of the German Empire in the year 1871, there was still an almost unimaginable multiplicity of coin mints, since each dominion had its own Currency spent.
The coins of the empire provided an overview and stability. With the defeat of World War I and the following Recession and hyperinflation coins played a minor role at the time. The material value was significantly higher than the Nominal value. Over time, the Weimar Republic managed to consolidate the monetary system and create a new one with new coins. To let confidence in the hard money grow up and to give Germany a uniform coin image.
With Hitlers seizure of power and subsequent National Socialism, both the Third Reich received as well as the occupied territories own coins. After the defeat in World War II until the founding of the BRD let the Allied victorious powers for cash supply Reichspfennige in Germany.
From 1948 until the introduction of the euro was then the German Mark marked with the Pfennig as a sub-currency of the newly founded Federal Republic.

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