Mints
Mostly even the place of minting is marked on the coin. For Germany - coins this occurs by a capital letter (historically determined from A to J). Still in the empire each state has minted its own coins.
In the following a list of the German mints:
| A | Berlin | Empire (Kingdom Prussia), Weimar, Third Reich, the GDR, since 1991 the FRG |
| B | Hannover | Empire |
| C | Frankfurt a. M. | Empire |
| D | Munich | Empire (Kindom Bavaria), Weimar, Third Reich, FRG |
| E | Dresden (until 1887) Muldenhütten |
(Grand Duchy Thuringia), Weimar, Third Reich, until 1953 the GDR |
| F | Stuttgart | Empire (Kingdom Württemberg), Weimar, Third Reich, FRG |
| G | Karlsruhe | Empire (Grand Duchy Baden), Weimar, Third Reich, FRG |
| H | Darmstadt | Empire (Grand Duchy Hesse) |
| J | Hamburg | Empire (Free and Hanseatic City), Weimar, Third Reich, the FRG |