This offer is for the lower denomination of 2 Mark from this special commemorative coin issued during the Kaiserreich (Constitutional monarchy).
It is in a good strong upper middle grade with only minor detractions in the rim and the Obverse with very light markings on the face where it has rubbed against other coins. Good detail is still there on both sides as per the pictures provided.
Together with the 5 Mark coin on offer in our site they make a strong collectors double from this rarer commemorative coin set.
Design
Value: 2 Mark
Year: 1904
Weight: 11.09 g
Silver 900/1000
Diameter: 28 mm
Rand : GOTT MIT UNS (God With Us)
Minted: 100,000
Catalogue: Jaeger 74
Obverse: PHILIPP LANDGRAF Z. HESSEN ERNST-LUDWIG GROSSHERZOG V. HESSEN U. B. R. / VERBUM DNI MANET IN AETERNUM (latin for “The word of the Lord endures forever”) 13. NOV. 1504-1904. Jugate and draped busts of Philipp and Ernst Ludwig left facing.
Reverse: Crowned imperial eagle, coat-of-arms on chest.
History
German Empire is the name of the German Reich between 1871 and 1918. During this period, it was the German national state, a federally organized body aligned on the monarchical principle of constitutional monarchy.
System of government:
– 1871-1918 Constitutional monarchy
– 1918- Parliamentary monarchy
Heads of state: German Emperor, King of Prussia
– 1871-1888 – Wilhelm I.
– 1888 – Friedrich III
– 1888-1918 – Wilhelm II
Head of Government – Chancellor
– 1871-1890 – Prince Otto von Bismarck
– 1890-1894 – Count Leo von Caprivi
– 1894-1900 – Clovis to Hohenlohe
– 1900-1909 – Prince Bernhard von Bülow
– 1909-1917 – Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
– 1917 – Georg Michaelis
– 1917-1918 – Count Georg von Hertling
– 1918 – Prince Max von Baden
