Hamburg 1877-J 10 mark

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Künker Auction 439, lot 2743

This specimen was lot 2743 in Künker sale 439 (Osnabrück, March 2026), where it sold for €2,200 (about US$3,027 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"REICHSGOLDMÜNZEN, HAMBURG Freie und Hansestadt. 10 Mark 1877. Prachtexemplar. Fast Stempelglanz. Exemplar der Auktion Fritz Rudolf Künker 406, Osnabrück 2024, Nr. 5022. (free city of Hamburg, ten mark of 1877. Choice example, about uncirculated.)"

This type was struck in Hamburg 1875-80 and 1888. Hamburg, on the North Sea, was one of three imperial free cities permitted a continued existence under the Empire of 1871; Bremen and Lubeck were the others. She struck silver two, three and five mark and gold ten and twenty mark until that Empire's collapse in 1918. This type is readily available lightly circulated. The Hamburg mint is still in operation, striking coins for the Federal Republic of Germany. Patterns exist for 1877 in silver (KM Pn17) and copper (KM Pn18).

Recorded mintage: 221,000.

Specification: 3.98 g, 0.900 fine gold, 19.5 mm diameter, decorated edge.

Catalog reference: Fr-3780, KM 600, J. 209.

Sources:

  • Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
  • Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
  • Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Frühjahrs-Auktion 439: Gold Coins from around the world, particularly Denmark, Habsburg, Malta and Saxony | German Coins after 1871 including Coins from the Collection of Jürgen and Erika Schmidt, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2026.

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