3 marks silver 1812

2 gold reichmarks
 

5 silver marks

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The first DM coins were issued by the Bank deutscher Länder in 1948 and 1949. From 1950, the inscription Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany) appeared on the coins.

1 Pfennig 1948-2001 1948-1949: Bronze plated steel
1950-2001: Copper plated steel
2 Pfennig 1950-2001 1950-1968: Bronze
1968-2001: Bronze plated steel
5 Pfennig 1949-2001 Brass plated steel
10 Pfennig 1949-2001 Brass plated steel
50 Pfennig 1949-2001 Cupro-nickel Woman planting an oak seedling
1 DM 1950-2001 Cupro-nickel German eagle
2 DM 1951, 1957-2001 Cupro-nickel German eagle 1951:
1957-1971: Max Planck
1969-1987: Konrad Adenauer
1970-1987: Theodor Heuss
1979-2001: Kurt Schumacher
1988-2001: Ludwig Erhard
1990-1994: Franz Josef Strauß
1994-2001: Willy Brandt
5 DM 1951-2001 1951-1974: Silver
1975-2001: Cupro-nickel German eagle Denomination

There were a considerable number of commemorative silver 5 and 10 DM coins

Gold 1 DM coin commemorating the end of the DM.was issued . A total of one million gold DM coins were minted and were sold .

German coins bear a mint mark, indicating where the coin was minted. D indicates Munich, F Stuttgart, G Karlsruhe and J Hamburg. Coins minted during WW2 include the mint marks A (Berlin) and B (Vienna). The mint mark A was also used for DM coins minted in Berlin beginning in 1990 following the reunification of Germany. These mint marks have been continued on the German Euro coins. ìIn colloquial German the 10 Pfennig coin was sometimes called a Groschen. half of a Groschen, was used to describe the five-Pfennig denomination from the introduction of the Mark, divided by 100 Pfennig, until the arrival of the Euro.