Hamburg 1878-J 10 mark

Künker sale 352, lot 2232

This specimen was lot 2232 in Künker sale 352 (Osnabrück, Germany, September 2021), where it sold for €320 (about US$445 including buyer's fees). The catalog description^[1] noted,

"REICHSGOLDMÜNZEN, HAMBURG, Freie und Hansestadt. 10 Mark 1878. Sehr schön. (Germany, unified gold coinage of the empire, free city of Hamburg, ten mark of 1878, very fine.)"

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.

Recorded mintage: 316,000.

Specification: 3.98 g, 0.900 fine gold.

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

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• 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.
• Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
• Jaeger, Kurt, Die Deutschen Münzen seit 1871, Basel: Münzen und Medaillen AG, 1982.
• ^[1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Künker Auktion 352: Die Sammlung Hermann Schwarz: Faszination des gepragten Goldes. Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2021.

Link to:

• 1875 10 mark
• 1878 2 mark
• Baden 1878-G 10 mark
• Bavaria 1878-D 10 mark
• Hesse 1878-H 10 mark
• Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1878-A 10 mark
• Prussia 1878-C 10 mark
• 1878 20 mark
• 1879 10 mark
• Coins and currency dated 1878