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1 Mark - Wilhelm I Pattern
| Issuer | Germany (1871-1948) |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Currency | Mark (1873-1923) |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUTSCHES REICH 1 MARK 1881 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Additional information |
Zinc pattern coinage from the German Empire is almost exclusively associated with wartime necessity, making an 1881 zinc Mark pattern genuinely anomalous — produced during a period when the imperial silver coinage was fully functional and uncontested. Whether this piece represents an official Reichsmünzamt trial or a private-venture strike testing alternative metals has never been definitively established.