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>>49696114
>Picked up this guy for $30, its a 1913, did I do well or get numisrailed?
That's a good price for a roughly AU-XF condition coin. I bought mine for $35 to give you a reference point.
I want to collect a type set of each Design of Drei Mark at some point, but the post-1914 minted Drei Marks all have stupidly low mintages that puts them well outside of my price range.
>I happen to respect this one too much to make a pocket fondler but it is finally a more fondleable coin than the death dollar
I'd fondle mine if I could too fren, but it's a valuable lower mintage coin and the design commands a lot of respect. Just read through the inscription on it and you'll pretty quickly realize that the Western World lacks the Artists and the Spirit to create such a coin nowadays.

>>49446558
Impressive, how many different types is that?
Pic rel is basically my entire 3 and 5 Mark Collection (plus a random 1/6 Reichsthaler).

>>49397418
>Get a 1871-1919 silver German Mark coin instead.
Definitely. A general rule is that good art in Europe (with the exception of Italy, Switzerland and a couple other places) died out after WWI, nearly every European coin made after 1920 is ugly compared to older designs.
Buy one or two Swastika Coins just to have them, but the designs are almost all a bland format of denomination on one side and Reichsadler on the other, with the 2 and 5s having a design on one side with the Reichsadler on the other. The only decent looking coins the Nazis made were the Potsdam Church RMs, but even those are a tad bland compared to pre-1920 stuff and certainly expensive for how common they are.
>Probably be cheaper too.
I've normally paid $30-40 per ounce for my 3 and 5 Marks (excluding a couple rarer coins) whereas my Silver RMs have been around $45/oz, so there isn't that much difference in the premiums, but the Swastika tax is certainly real, especially on base metal coins.
You can also occasionally find Imperial 1/2 and 1 Marks for close to spot if you get lucky.

>>49375984
>Fuck I love Kaiserreichs-Mark
All the best designs for German coins were made before 1920. You had dozens of minting authorities, High Purity coins, Good artists and a country which was confident in itself all coming together for a perfect storm of Reall well designed Numismatic coins.
Here's my Drei and Funf mark collection, strangely Bavaria and Wurttemberg seem to be the easiest for me to get my hands on. Of course the Defeat of Napoleon and Wurttemburg Wedding Anniversary 3 Marks I had to specifically seek out and pay a pretty hefty premium for, but they were certainly worth it.
The heavily worn coin in the upper left is an 1816 Prussian 1/6 Reichsthaler I got from a world coin lot.