I have been trying to put together a collection of German marks from the empire period and just won this coin: https://www.pcgs.com/cert/84146031 The PCGS certificate page calls it variety J-17. I've never heard of varieties of this coin (KM#14). Can anyone shed any light on this? It also says: Population 7, Pop Higher . Will this refer to the variety or would it be to the 1914G coin itself? Sorry if these are trivial questions but I normally don't buy slabbed coins and so don't know my way around the PCGS valuation pages. But this coin seemed too good to refuse.
Hello, the J-17 variety it refers to the denomination used in the Jaeger catalog "Die Deutschen Munzen seit 1871" Ej: KM# = Krause Misher J = Jaeger Your coin its the KM#14 and the J17
Thanks. So what are other varieties listed, or is this the only one? And how does it differ from the regular KM#14?
It is not a question of variants, the Standard Catalog Of World Coins uses the KM # as it indexes to list, and the Jaeger catalog uses the "J" letter KM#14 - 1 Mark from 1891 to 1916 J17 - Same coin, same dates
