Westphalia 50 million Marks 1923, completely different size and weight [gelöst]

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According to the Numista page, the 1923 Westphalia 50 million Marks has a diameter of 44 mm. and a weight of 8 grams: N#32474

Mine has the correct thickness, yet the weight is just about 5.6 grams and the diameter only about 37.76 mm.

If you own this coin, can you please check the diameter and weight?

 

Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.

I found the listing on Ucoin, which confirms my measurements, so I entered a modification request.
https://nl.ucoin.net/coin/germany_notgelds-50000000-mark-1923/?tid=117170

Matter solved, it's up to the referee now.

Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Status geändert zu Gelöst (E. Timmermans, 31 Jan. 2026, 00:12)

There are two separate 1923 Westphalia 50 Million Mark coins in Numista:

 

44mm: N#32474 

37.8mm: N#20321 

I just make a series of change requests to use the same denomination name in the title and to add size information to the title.

bjherbison

I just make a series of change requests to use the same denomination name in the title and to add size information to the title.

Thank you for checking and finding the two listings as well as making these requests!

I canceled mine, I may request some small changes to improve the page of the larger coin.
It is a very interesting and unexpected outcome to me, though a size reduction to save on metal in a time of high inflation makes sense.
My assumption would be that the smaller coin was introduced after the larger one had been released already, finding any evidence on the time line of the release of these two versions would be interesting.

Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.

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