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[[Image:Germany SA38-1650o.jpg|300px|thumb|Steve Album sale 38, lot 1650]]
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This specimen was lot 1650 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it did not sell. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Germany|GERMANY]]: Kaiserreich, AE pfennig, 1887-E, nice coloration, a bit of red, Unc." This coin is a copper pfennig from a type issued 1873-89 from the Berlin (mintmark "A"), Hannover (mintmark "B"), Frankfurt (mintmark "C"), Munich (mintmark "D"), Dresden (mintmark "E", shown here), Stuttgart (mintmark "F"), Karlsruhe (mintmark "G") and Hamburg (mintmark "J") mints. Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the denominations of two mark and up were permitted for the formerly independent principalities while the lower denominations (one pfennig thru one mark) were minted to a unified design. This is a somewhat better date.

''Recorded mintage:'' 2,315,000.

''Specification:'' 2 g, copper, 17.5 mm diameter. 

''Catalog reference:'' KM-1. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016. 
* <sup>[1]</sup>Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, ''Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins,'' Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

''Link to:''
* [[Germany 1875-F pfennig|1875-F pfennig]]
* [[Germany 1887-A mark|1887-A mark]]
* [[Germany 1889-G pfennig|1889-G pfennig]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1887]]

[[Category: Selections from Stephen Album sale 38]]