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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 24685562, member: 5233&quot;]OK, so here is a very special one I just picked up.&nbsp; This coin has been on my &quot;big want list&quot; for quite some time and when I saw it I had to pick it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a 1929-F 1 Rentenpfennig from Germany&#039;s Weimar Repbulic.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick history lesson here.&nbsp; The Rentenmark (100 Rentenpfennig&#039;s made a Rentenmark) was Germany&#039;s answer to hyperinflation in the early 1920s.&nbsp; Due to the economic crisis in Germany following WWI, there was no gold to back the Papiermark.&nbsp; This combined with Germany printing more and more money...well the Papiermark become worthless.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1923, the new Rentenmark is was issued at a rate of 1 Rentenmark to 1 trillion (10 to the 12th power) of the old Papiermarks.&nbsp; This currency was backed by real goods...namely land (Renten being the German word for Mortgage).&nbsp; Basically, the government borrowed money against the land of it&#039;s people with the mortgage being payable twice annually for 5 years.&nbsp; The Rentenmark was issued from 1923 until mid 1924 when (thanks to the Dawes plan)...the Reichsmark (a new gold backed currency) came into being with a 1:1 exchange rate.</p><p><br /></p><p>No Rentenmarks were issued after 1924...except there were. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few of the Rentenpfennig coins were made in 1925 (1pf, 5pf, and 10pf) as well as these 1929-F 1 Rentenpfennig coins.&nbsp; All are extremely rare and it is unknown how, why or how many were produced. </p><p><br /></p><p>The new Reichspfennigs are virtually identical to the Rentenpfennigs...with only a single word being changed on the reverse.&nbsp; It is conceivable that the wrong (old) reverse die was used on a handful of 1925 coins.&nbsp; It is also possible that these were made by a clandestine mint employee.&nbsp; Nobody really knows. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can see a mistake for the 1925s.&nbsp; It was only the previous year that the Rentenpfennig&#039;s were stopped being issued.&nbsp; But for 1929, that seems to me to be too long after the fact for a simple error.&nbsp; I&#039;m willing to bet that there was some shenanigans at the Stuttgart mint in 1929 and that is why these 1929-F coins were made. </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, nobody really knows.&nbsp; But, that&#039;s my guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I found a 1929-F from Ron Guth.&nbsp; He told me it was only the second one he has had in 30 years.&nbsp; Although it was outside of my budget, I had to do it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Jhs91gz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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