Coins of Europe of 1949

Coins of Europe of 1949: 58 records in the reference. By metal: cupronickel (copper-nickel) — 33, aluminum — 15, silver — 6, bronze — 3. By denomination: mark — 25, groschen — 9, krone — 6, pfennig — 5. By country: Germany — 26, Poland — 10, Czechoslovakia — 6, GDR — 4. Reference prices run from 900 to 8 500 roubles. Every entry carries photographs of both sides, metal, fineness, weight, diameter, mintage and catalogue numbers after Bitkin, Uzdenikov and Conros. The year of striking appears on the coin itself and, together with the mint, defines the variety. Coins of one year from different mints differ by the letters below the truncation and by die details, and prices between varieties differ several times over.