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1 Rentenpfennig
| Issuer | Weimar Republic |
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| Year | 1923-1929 |
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| Value | 1 Rentenpfennig (0.01) |
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| Reverse description | A centrally placed wheatsheaf, depicted in detailed low relief with stalks bound at the centre by a horizontal band, dominates the field. The four-digit date is split to either side of the sheaf, with '19' to the left and the final two digits of the year to the right at mid-height. The mint mark appears in small letters at the base of the design, below the sheaf, with no additional legend or border inscription. |
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| Mintage | 1923 A - - 12,628,587 1923 D - Mintage included with 1923 A - 1923 E - - 2,200,000 1923 F - (fr) Tirage avec 1923 E - 160,000 1923 G - Mintage included with 1923 E - 1923 J - - 1,470,000 1924 A - - 55,273,481 1924 D - - 17,539,787 1924 E - - 6,838,000 1924 F - - 10,346,703 1924 G - - 7,366,428 1924 J - - 11,024,385 1925 A - - 1929 F - Also D mint Mark - |
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The Rentenpfennig was born directly out of monetary catastrophe. When hyperinflation peaked in late 1923 — the dollar briefly exchanged at over four trillion Marks — Germany introduced the Rentenmark as an emergency currency backed notionally by agricultural and industrial land. These bronze pfennig denominations followed immediately, circulating alongside the new paper issues as the first physically stable coinage Germans had handled in years. The psychological weight of that stability should not be underestimated; ordinary transactions had become nearly impossible with paper alone.
Production ran across multiple mints through 1929, leaving a range of mintmark varieties under the KM#30 designation that reward closer attribution.