Following World War II, Germany was split into the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (West Germany) and the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (East Germany). Both sides began issuing coins in 1948 and both are famous for their long series of commemorative coins. East German citizens did not have access to the silver versions of their commemorative coins, which were only meant for export. Thus, when Germany reunited in 1990, and East Germans were able to purchase their former country’s coins, there was surge in demand for East German coins. They remain one of the most popular areas of German numismatics for two reasons: they are affordable; and the series are all closed.
Updated March 13, 2026
1948-A 1 Pfennig KM-1 AU $3.00
1948-A 1 Pfennig KM-1 MS63, slightly soft strike $5.00
1948-A 1 Pfennig KM-1 MS63 $40.00
1949-E 1 Pfennig KM-1 VF+ $3.00
1949-E 1 Pfennig KM-1 EF $4.00
1949-E 1 Pfennig KM-1 AU $10.00
1950-A 1 Pfennig KM-1 EF+ $2.00
1952-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU $3.25
1952-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU, neat minor clip $10.00
1952-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU+ $8.00
1952-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 MS62 $16.00 Reduced to $10.00
1952-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 MS63 $13.50 Reduced to $12.00
1952-E 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU $18.00
1953-A 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU $3.00
1953-E 1 Pfennig KM-5 AU $18.00
1953-E 1 Pfennig KM-5 MS-60 $50.00
1962-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.1 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Fifty Piece Roll $120.00
1963-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.1 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Fifty Piece Roll $120.00
1965-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.1 AU $1.00
1975-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.1 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Bank-wrapped roll of fifty pieces $100.00
1977-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.2 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Bank-wrapped roll of fifty pieces $200.00
1978-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.2 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Bank-wrapped roll of fifty pieces $75.00
1983-A 1 Pfennig KM-8.2 Choice to Gem Uncirculated Bank-wrapped roll of fifty pieces, 28 rolls available $125.00
1948-A 5 Pfennig KM-2 AU $20.00
1949-A 5 Pfennig KM-2 EF+ $29.00 Reduced to $14.00
1950-A 5 Pfennig KM-2 AU $15.00
1952-A 5 Pfennig KM-6 AU $2.90
1952-A 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS-63 $15.00
1952-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 EF+ $6.50
1952-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 AU $7.50
1952-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS-63 $11.25
1952-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS-64, scattered light corrosion $9.00
1952-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS-64 $16.25
1953-A 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS-63 $13.50
1953-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 EF $5.75
1953-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 EF+ $18.00
1953-E 5 Pfennig KM-6 MS64 $110.00
1984-A 5 Pfennig KM-9.2 PR63 $30.00
1948-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 AU $25.00
1949-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF $4.00
1949-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF+ $14.50
1949-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 AU $20.00
1949-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 AU+ $25.00
1950-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF $4.00
1950-A 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF+ $6.00
1950-E 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF, obverse flaw $18.00
1950-E 10 Pfennig KM-3 EF, rare! $100.00
1950-E 10 Pfennig KM-3 AU, obverse rim bruise, reverse mark $150.00
1952-A 10 Pfennig KM-7 AU $25.00
1952-A 10 Pfennig KM-7 MS60 $36.00
1952-A 10 Pfennig KM-7 MS63 $50.00
1952-A 10 Pfennig KM-7 MS64 $90.00
1952-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 EF, light rim dings $10.00
1952-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 EF, minor porosity $10.00
1952-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 EF $14.00
1952-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 AU $105.00
1953-A 10 Pfennig KM-7 AU+ $65.00
1953-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 EF+, small obverse flaw $55.00
1953-E 10 Pfennig KM-7 EF+ $90.00
1963-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 EF $6.00
1963-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 EF+ $14.00
1963-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 AU $22.00
1963-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 AU+ $30.00
1967-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 MS66 $10.00
1968-A 10 Pfennig KM-10 MS-64 $4.00
1989-A 20 Pfennig KM-11 MS67 $7.00
1950-A 50 Pfennig KM-4 EF $6.00
1950-A 50 Pfennig KM-4 AU $18.00
1950-A 50 Pfennig KM-4 MS63 $200.00
1958-A 50 Pfennig KM-12 AU $3.00
1958-A 50 Pfennig KM-12 MS64 $6.00
1968-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS64 $5.00
1971-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS66 $6.00
1972-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS64 $5.00
1973-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS-64 $6.00
1979-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS65, Prooflike $6.00
1981-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 MS64, Prooflike $5.00
1984-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 PR67, only available from Proof sets $35.00
1985-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 PR67, Deep Cameo $10.00
1986-A 50 Pfennig KM-12.2 PR68, Deep Cameo $20.00
1956-A 1 Mark KM-13 MS64 $9.00
1962-A 1 Mark KM-13 MS64 $7.50
1963-A 1 Mark KM-13 MS67 $15.00
1957-A 2 Mark KM-14 MS65 $8.00
1957-A 2 Mark KM-14 MS66 $10.00
1975-A 2 Mark KM-48 MS65 $10.00
1985-A 2 Mark KM-48 PR67, Deep Cameo $15.00
1968-A 5 Mark KM-19 MS-64 Robert Koch $15.00
1969 5 Mark KM-22.1a MS-63, Nickel Pattern 20th Anniversary DDR $60.00
1970 5 Mark KM-26 MS67 Wilhelm Roentgen $25.00
1971-A 5 Mark KM-29 MS63 Brandenburg Gate $25.00
1971-A 5 Mark KM-29 MS64 Brandenburg Gate $30.00
1971-A 5 Mark KM-29 MS66 Brandenburg Gate $35.00
1990-A 5 Mark KM-29 MS-64 Brandenburg Gate $50.00
1971 5 Mark KM-30 MS67 Johannes Keppler $30.00
1972 5 Mark KM-36 MS64 Johannes Brahms $20.00
1972-A 5 Mark KM-37 MS64 City of Meissen $10.00
1973-A 5 Mark KM-43 MS-66 Otto Lilienthal $30.00
1974 5 Mark KM-49 MS65 Philipp Reis $16.00
1975 5 Mark KM-54 MS65 Thomas Mann $15.00
1975 5 Mark KM-54 MS66 Thomas Mann $20.00
1976 5 Mark KM-60 MS-64 Von Schill $20.00
1977 5 Mark KM-64 MS65 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn $25.00
1980 5 Mark KM-76 MS64 Adolph Von Menzel $25.00
1980 5 Mark KM-76 MS66 Adolph Von Menzel $30.00
1982-A 5 Mark KM-85 Gem Proof in the original case Goethe’s Weimar Cottage $65.00
1983-A 5 Mark KM-89 MS65 Wittenberg Church $25.00
1983-A 5 Mark KM-89 Proof-67, Deep Cameo, in original, mint-sealed case Wittenberg Church $70.00
1983 5 Mark KM-91 Proof-67, Deep Cameo in the original case Birth of Max Planck $85.00
1984-A 5 Mark KM-96 MS67 Leipzig Old City Hall $25.00
1984-A 5 Mark KM-96 Proof-65, Cameo, reverse fingerprints Leipzig Old City Hall $40.00
1984-A 5 Mark KM-98 MS65 Adolf Freiherr von Lutzow $45.00
1985-A 5 Mark KM-103 MS67 Dresden – Zwinger $30.00
1987-A 5 Mark KM-114 MS65 Berlin – Nikolai Viertel $20.00
1988-A 5 Mark KM-120 Gem Proof in the original case Saxonia $120.00
1988-A 5 Mark KM-121 MS65 Rostock $10.00
1988-A 5 Mark KM-121 MS66 Rostock $15.00
1988-A 5 Mark KM-121 Gem Proof in the original, sealed case Rostock $110.00
1967 10 Mark KM-17.1 MS-65, deep toning Kathe Kollwitz $50.00
1968 10 Mark KM-20 MS63 Johann Gutenberg $45.00
1970-A 10 Mark KM-27 Brilliant Uncirculated Ludwig van Beethoven $55.00
1972 10 Mark KM-38 MS60 Buchenwald Memorial $10.00
1972 10 Mark KM-39 Uncirculated Heinrich Heine $50.00
1973 10 Mark KM-45 Brilliant Uncirculated Berthold Brecht $50.00
1973-A 10 Mark KM-44 MS66 10th Youth Festival Games $15.00
1974-A 10 Mark KM-50 AU 25th Anniversary D.D.R. Copper-Nickel $7.00
1974-A 10 Mark KM-PR13 MS-63, hairlined 25th Anniversary D.D.R. Pattern in Silver – only 1,500 made $950.00
1974-A 10 Mark KM-52 Brilliant Uncirculated Caspar David Friedrich $55.00
1975 10 Mark KM-56 MS65 Albert Schweitzer $50.00
1975-A 10 Mark KM-57 Brilliant Uncirculated Albert Schweitzer Mule (reverse of KM-58) $140.00
1976 10 Mark KM-62 Proof-66, Deep Cameo Carl Maria Von Weber $75.00
1977 10 Mark KM-65 Brilliant Uncirculated Otto Von Guericke $90.00
1978-A 10 Mark KM-69 MS-64 Justus von Liebig $75.00
1978-A 10 Mark KM-70 MS-65 Joint USSR-DDR Orbital Flight $40.00
1979 10 Mark KM-73 BU Ludwig Feuerbach $120.00
1979 10 Mark KM-73 BU Ludwig Feuerbach $120.00
1980 10 Mark KM-77 Brilliant Uncirculated Gerhard Scharnhorst $45.00
1981-A 10 Mark KM-80 MS65 25th Anniversary – National People’s Army $10.00
1981-A 10 Mark KM-80 MS66 25th Anniversary – National People’s Army $15.00
1982 10 Mark KM-87 MS63 Leipzig Gewandhaus $40.00
1982 10 Mark KM-87 Gem proof in original, sealed capsule Leipzig Gewandhaus $75.00
1986-A 10 Mark KM-109 AU, cleaned Ernst Thaelmann $7.00
1986-A 10 Mark KM-109 MS64 Ernst Thaelmann $9.00
1986-A 10 Mark KM-109 MS65 Ernst Thaelmann $10.00
1986-A 10 Mark KM-109 MS66 Ernst Thaelmann $15.00
1988-A 10 Mark KM-123 Gem Proof in the original, sealed case Birth of Ulrich von Hutten $165.00
1988-A 10 Mark KM-125 AU East German Sports $5.00
1988-A 10 Mark KM-125 MS67 East German Sports $20.00
1989-A 10 Mark KM-132 MS62 40th Anniversary of East Germany $12.00
1989-A 10 Mark KM-132 MS67 40th Anniversary of East Germany $15.00
1990-A 10 Mark KM-136 MS63, toned International Labor Day $4.00
1990-A 10 Mark KM-136 MS64, obverse toning International Labor Day $6.00
1990-A 10 Mark KM-136 MS-66 International Labor Day $7.00
1966 20 Mark KM-16 MS-63, light hairlines Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz $100.00
1966 20 Mark KM-16 MS-64, milky toning Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz $125.00
1966 20 Mark KM-16 MS67, gray-silver toning Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz $150.00
1967 20 Mark KM-18.2 MS67, light toning Wilhelm von Humboldt $125.00
1968 20 Mark KM-21 MS63, toned, faint hairlines Karl Marx $75.00
1969 20 Mark KM-25 MS-63 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe $90.00
1969 20 Mark KM-25 MS-64 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe $100.00
1969 20 Mark KM-TS11 MS-63, lightly cleaned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Uniface Aluminum Trial Piece $200.00
1971 20 Mark KM-32 MS-66 Karl Liebknecht – Rosa Luxemburg $75.00
1971 20 Mark KM-33 MS64 Heinrich Mann $10.00
1971-A 20 Mark KM-34 AU Ernst Thaelmann $8.00
1971-A 20 Mark KM-34 AU, toned Ernst Thaelmann $9.00
1971-A 20 Mark KM-34 MS64 Ernst Thaelmann $10.00
1971-A 20 Mark KM-34 MS65, obverse toning Ernst Thaelmann $10.00
1972 20 Mark KM-40 AU, hairlined Friedrich von Schiller $5.00
1972 20 Mark KM-40 MS-65 Friedrich von Schiller $10.00
1972-A 20 Mark KM-42 AU Wilhelm Pieck $9.00
1973 20 Mark KM-46 Brilliant Uncirculated August Bebel $80.00
1973-A 20 Mark KM-47 MS63 Otto Grotewohl $10.00
1975 20 Mark KM-59 Brilliant Uncirculated Johann Sebastian Bach (Raised lettering) $90.00
1975 20 Mark KM-59 MS-60, hairlined Johann Sebastian Bach (Incuse lettering) $70.00
1977 20 Mark MS66 MS66 Carl Friedrich Gauss $80.00
1979-A 20 Mark KM-75 AU 30th Anniversary of DDR $8.00
1979-A 20 Mark KM-Pr22 MS67 Pattern – 30th Anniversary of DDR $140.00
1980-A 20 Mark KM-78 Proof-64, Deep Cameo Death of Ernst Abbe $130.00
1981 20 Mark KM-83 Gem Proof in the original, sealed case Death of vom Stein $120.00
1983-A 20 Mark KM-94 MS67 Birth of Martin Luther $375.00
1983-A 20 Mark KM-95 MS63 Death of Karl Marx $10.00
1983-A 20 Mark KM-95 MS63 Death of Karl Marx $12.50
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139 MS64, minor spotting Brandenberg Gate in Nickel $6.00
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139 MS64, toned Brandenberg Gate in Nickel $9.00
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139 MS66 Brandenberg Gate in Nickel $10.00
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139a Brilliant Uncirculated Brandenberg Gate in Silver $32.00
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139a PR64, Cameo Brandenberg Gate in Silver $100.00
1990-A 20 Mark KM-139a PR65, Cameo Brandenberg Gate in Silver $130.00
1980-A 8 piece Mint Set KM-MS2 MS-65+ Original Case (2 available) $90.00
1987-A 4 piece Mint Set KM-MSA16 MS-65+ Original Case, includes all four 5 Marks of this year $50.00
1982-A 8 piece Proof Set KM-PS3 Gem Proof, some corrosion on the edges of the 20 Pfennig Original Case $375.00
1982-A 8 piece Proof Set KM-PS4 Gem Proof Original Case $550.00