10 Mark

Hamburg retained the right to strike its own coinage well into the German Imperial period — an unusual concession for a city-state operating within a unified federal monetary system. The Hamburg mint, active on Münzstraße, produced gold marks alongside the imperial issues from Berlin and Munich, though Hamburg's output was consistently smaller in volume and the dies were cut locally, giving the series subtly distinct characteristics from imperial mint production.

The series ran across four reigns but Hamburg's civic issues were discontinued by 1913, shortly before the outbreak of war ended German gold coinage circulation entirely.