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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hus.thaler, post: 2718874, member: 85490&quot;]If you are looking for German States post 1901, then you are really talking about the silver 2, 3, &amp; 5 Mark coins, or the gold 5, 10, 20 Mark coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a general rule of thumb (mostly for silver):</p><p><br /></p><p>Prussian silver is by far the easiest and most plentiful.&nbsp; The &quot;regular&quot; 3 mark coins are all quite common, but actually hard to find in really nice (MS-64 or better) grades.&nbsp; There are a few key dates, but only the Mansfeld 3 Mark is difficult to get (and even that one is just <i>expensive </i>but you can almost always find somebody with one for sale somewhere).</p><p><br /></p><p>Bavaria and Wurttemberg are probably the next most common, with Saxony, Baden, and Hamburg just a tick lower.&nbsp; As always, there are some keys, but most of these are regularly available in circulated grades.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After that, you start looking at the smaller states or free cities where any of the coins are going to cost upwards of $100 in even average collectible states (roughly speaking).&nbsp; Bremen, Lubeck, the various minor &quot;Saxe-[something]&quot; states, Hesse-Darmstadt, etc. all fall here.&nbsp; Of course, some of the coins from the remaining states are almost unattainable and only end up in the accumulations of truly deep-pocketed collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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