Bavaria 1907-D 10 mark
This specimen was part of lot 5001 in Künker sale 406 (Osnabruck, March 2024), where it sold for €2,900 (about US$3,805 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"REICHSGOLDMÜNZEN, BAYERN, Otto II. 1886-1913. 10 Mark 1900-1912. Komplette Serie. 12 Stück., Sehr schön-vorzüglich. (kingdom of Bavaria, Otto II, 1886-1913, ten mark, complete series of 1900-12. Twelve pieces, very fine to extremely fine.)"
Several German states issued gold five mark in 1877 but the denomination was abandoned in favor of a silver five mark, gold being restricted to ten and twenty mark pieces. The gold ten mark were issued in this design 1900-12 and are quite a bit more common than the twenty mark.
Recorded mintage: 211,211.
Specification: 3.98 g, 0.900 fine gold, 0.115 troy oz AGW.
Catalog reference: KM 994, Fr-3771, J. 201.
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- 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, Katalog 406: Gold Coins | Coins and Medals from the Medieval and Modern Times, a. o. Löwenstein-Wertheim | German Coins after 1871, a. o. Patterns from the Coenen Collection, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2024.
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