hi! can anybody please give some information about this letter "G" on a 50Pfennig dated 1968... what does it mean? thanks! would really appreciate it
It's the mintmark. I'm still learning a lot about World coins through necessity (I work in a ahop) but the German coinage has corresponding mintmarks to whatever mint the coin was made in. It does NOT stand for any particular name of a city. Each mint is just assigned a letter from A through whatever. Any one that wants to correct me is more than free to. Like I said I'm still learning this stuff. clembo
Clembo is correct the G is the mint mark for Karlsruhe of the German Federal Republic or East Germany. The other mint marks are: A Berlin, D Munich, F Stuttgard, J Hamburg. Lou
mint marks! ok that's great, thanks guys! does that mean all coins have these type of letter markings? or can it be numbers too?
No numbers that I know of, but some countries use symbols instead of letters. France for instance has used a torch, wing, owl, dolphin and a bee. Lou
Some countries, especially Canada and Australia, place "privy marks" on commemorative and NCLT coins. Clinker
Actually "Federal Republic of Germany" has been the name of this country since it was founded in 1949. Used to be West Germany, then Saarland joined, then the Eastern states (ex-GDR) joined. Karlsruhe (G) is one of the two facilities of the Baden-Württemberg Mint, and the smallest of the five locations. Christian
The symbols on French (and also Belgian, Dutch ...) coins have two purposes: Some are mintmarks or mint logos, others are the signs of the mintmaster or mint director. Don't know of any numeric mintmarks either. Christian
